GP Former Winners Elimination Alternative Championship

[Bleu]

2009


Sebastian Vettel 85 (5 wins, 2 2nd, 3 3rd) CHN GBR BEL JPN ABD
Mark Webber 84 (3 wins, 5 2nd, 1 3rd) GER HUN BRA
Jenson Button 77 (6 wins*, 2 3rd) AUS MAL BRN ESP MON TUR
Nico Rosberg 53,5 (1 2nd, 3 3rd)
Timo Glock 51 (1 2nd, 3 3rd*)
Heikki Kovalainen 39 (2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 37,5 (2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Nick Heidfeld 32 (1 2nd*, 1 3rd)
Robert Kubica 31 (2 2nd)
Adrian Sutil 22 (1 win) ITA
Lewis Hamilton 21 (1 win, 1 3rd) SIN
Sebastien Buemi 16 (1 4th)
Rubems Barrichello 16 (1 4th)
Felipe Massa 15 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Kazuki Nakajima 15 (1 4th)
Giancarlo Fisichella 13 (1 4th) 8 for FI, 5 for Ferrari
Sebastien Bourdais 10,5 (2 5th)
Kimi Räikkönen 10 (1 win) EUR
Nelsinho Piquet 7 (1 6th)
Kamui Kobayashi 5 (1 6th)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 3 (1 7th)

Button ran far in early part of the season, having been eligible for first seven events. But then started a series of eliminations and with three races to go, Button and Webber had 66, Vettel 65 points. Webber being only one with three races eligible, but then his bad Japanese race removed his advantage. In Abu Dhabi, a Red Bull win would give the winner the title - and Vettel was the winner.

Interesting thing is that if Malaysian GP had finished for full points in the same order as it was during the red flag, Webber would have won the title since he was 5th there.

Very happy to see Adrian Sutil taking first victory for Force India.

[James1978]

Have you forgotten about 2010 Bleu?

[Bleu]

I was just wondering as no one was posting predictions...
2010

Mark Webber 252 (5 wins, 4 2nd, 1 3rd) ESP MON TUR GBR JPN
Sebastian Vettel 204 (6 wins, 3 2nd) MAL CAN EUR GER HUN SIN
Nico Rosberg 190 (3 2nd, 6 3rd)
Robert Kubica 157 (1 win, 2 2nd, 2 3rd) AUS
Felipe Massa 121 (1 win, 2 2nd, 2 3rd) ITA
Lewis Hamilton 118 (4 wins, 1 2nd) BRN BEL BRA ABD
Adrian Sutil 117 (2 3rd)
Kamui Kobayashi 99 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 82 (1 3rd)
Jaime Alguersuari 82 (3 5th)
Vitaly Petrov 79 (1 3rd)
Jenson Button 76 (1 win, 2 2nd, 1 3rd) CHN
Nico Hülkenberg 74 (1 3rd)
Sebastien Buemi 71 (2 4th)
Pedro de la Rosa 42 (1 5th)
Fernando Alonso 33 (1 win) KOR
Michael Schumacher 30 (1 2nd)
Rubens Barrichello 27 (1 5th)
Heikki Kovalainen 18 (1 6th)
Nick Heidfeld 18 (1 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 7 (1 7th)
Timo Glock 7 (1 8th)
Karun Chandhok 6 (1 8th)
Bruno Senna 3 (1 9th)
Lucas di Grassi 2 (1 9th)
Sakon Yamamoto 1 (1 10th)

Battle of Red Bull drivers but in the end Webber had so much more races that he could take the title quite easily. Big five of the real-life season takes still 17 victories, only Kubica and Massa can break their dominance. Klien is the only driver who fails to score.

[James1978]

Oops, I could have sworn I said Webber for 2010 somewhere.

This year is probably going to end up being Rosberg's if any of the similar elimination alternative championships, and the Junior one is to go by!

Though of the top 3 teams, I'd still say Webber has the best chance, as he's scored in every race so far and is out of less than everyone else.

[Bleu]

2011 so far!

Nico Rosberg 165 (1 win, 6 2nd) EUR
Adrian Sutil 112 (1 win, 3 3rd) GER
Vitaly Petrov 112 (2 2nd)
Mark Webber 108 (3 wins, 1 2nd, 1 3rd) CHN CAN BEL
Felipe Massa 107 (2 wins, 3 3rd) GBR HUN
Kamui Kobayashi 103 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Sebastian Vettel 100 (4 wins) AUS TUR ESP MON
Paul di Resta 80 (1 2nd)
Sebastien Buemi 75 (1 3rd)
Nick Heidfeld 70 (1 win, 1 3rd) MAL
Jaime Alguersuari 65 (1 2nd)
Sergio Perez 54 (2 3rd)
Pastor Maldonado 24 (1 5th)
Heikki Kovalainen 8 (1 8th)
Michael Schumacher 6 (1 7th)
Jerome d'Ambrosio 5 (1 9th)
Pedro de la Rosa 4 (1 8th)
Bruno Senna 4 (1 8th)
Jarno Trulli 4 (2 9th)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 3 (1 9th)
Timo Glock 2 (1 9th)
Rubens Barrichello 1 (1 10th)

[Bleu]

2011 final results

Nico Rosberg 213 (1 win, 6 2nd) EUR
Mark Webber 168 (3 wins, 2 2nd, 3 3rd) CHN CAN BEL
Felipe Massa 162 (3 wins, 3 3rd) GBR HUN JPN
Adrian Sutil 159 (1 win, 1 2nd, 3 3rd) GER
Sebastian Vettel 150 (6 wins) AUS TUR ESP MON KOR IND
Paul di Resta 142 (2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Vitaly Petrov 137 (2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Kamui Kobayashi 123 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jaime Alguersuari 112 (1 win, 1 2nd) ITA
Sebastien Buemi 99 (1 3rd)
Jenson Button 98 (2 wins, 2 2nd) SIN BRA
Sergio Perez 84 (1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Nick Heidfeld 70 (1 win, 1 3rd) MAL
Pastor Maldonado 42 (2 5th)
Fernando Alonso 40 (1 win, 1 3rd) ABD
Lewis Hamilton 24 (1 2nd)
Michael Schumacher 24 (1 5th)
Bruno Senna 20 (1 3rd)
Heikki Kovalainen 17 (1 6th)
Jarno Trulli 10 (1 7th)
Timo Glock 6 (1 8th)
Jerome d'Ambrosio 5 (1 9th)
Pedro de la Rosa 4 (1 8th)
Rubens Barrichello 4 (1 9th)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 3 (1 9th)

Nico avoided wins as much as possible but no one could really threaten him for the title. As it stands, he has good chance to win another next year.

[James1978]

You've said Petrov got 2 wins but not which races they were? (is that a typo becuase I would have though one of them would be Australia but Vettel wins that)

[QuickYoda41]

It must be a typo, as we have winners for all 19 races mentioned.

[Bleu]

Corrected, it was 2 2nd places actually.

[James1978]

I hope Bleu doesn't mind me doing this for this year, I'd made notes of which drivers had "won" each race to eliminate and this is what I worked out:

2012

Nico Hulkenberg 201 (3 wins, 1 2nd) EUR BEL BRA
Nico Rosberg 172 (2 wins, 2 2nd) CHN MON
Paul Di Resta 170 (1 win, 2 3rd) SIN
Romain Grosjean 167 (3 wins, 3 2nd) CAN GBR HUN
Kamui Kobayashi 164 (1 win, 2 2nd, 3 3rd) JPN
Sergio Perez 155 (2 wins, 1 2nd, 3 3rd) MAL ITA
Bruno Senna 129 (2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Daniel Ricciardo 118 (1 3rd, 2 4th)
Pastor Maldonado 115 (1 win, 2 3rd) ESP
Mark Webber 105 (2 wins, 2 2nd, 1 3rd) AUS KOR
Jean-Eric Vergne 103 (1 2nd, 1 5th)
Kimi Raikkonen 88 (2 wins, 2 3rd) GER ABU
Felipe Massa 82 (2 2nd)
Sebastian Vettel 50 (2 wins) BRN USA
Jenson Button 45 (1 2nd)
Fernando Alonso 43 (1 win, 1 2nd) IND
Vitaly Petrov 27 (1 4th)
Heikki Kovalainen 24 (1 7th)
Lewis Hamilton 19 (1 3rd)
Timo Glock 17 (2 8th)
Charles Pic 15 (1 5th)
Jerome D'Ambrosio 4 (1 8th)
Pedro De La Rosa 3 (1 9th)
Michael Schumacher 2 (1 9th)
Narain Karthikeyan 2 (2 10th)

Hulkenberg was the best performing of those drivers still in every race. Though Rosberg looked to have it until only scoring 2 points in the last 6 races (he was only eliminated from Brazil of those).

Every driver scores through there being several new races which most of the top drivers were still in, but Schumacher only scoring 2 points when he was eligible for 4 races is shocking!

Webber finally wins his home race at his 11th attempt! And Kobayashi may only ever win one race but it's his home race!

(BTW I trust the US Grand Prix at Austin had the same status as the one at Indianapolis in 2000 - 07, Schumacher, Massa, Raikkonen and Hamilton were all eliminated from that from winning at Indianapolis).

With wins being spread around, anything could happen next year, but I'd say Perez was the favourite being out of only 2 races and in a McLaren!