[bjohnsonsmith]

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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

Does the points system need revising?


Will Power won his second IndyCar driver's championship, beating Josef Newgarden by 16 points. However, Will Power only won one race, while Josef Newgarden won 5.

Part of winning a championship is being consistent and getting good points finishes and Will Power was certainly consistent, with 12 top 5 finishes and 13 top 10 finishes. Josef Newgarden had 8 top 5 finishes and 12 top 10 finishes. However, the ultimate goal in any race is to win.



I noticed a reference in an article on The Race about the Newgarden situation with regard to his five wins.
The writer had gone over the results using many of the various FIA series points systems and some others. Only in 0ne of them did Newgarden outscore Power.
Driving consistently across a season is as much a skill as driving faster or winning most races.
Lots of points scoring systems reward consistency over flashes of brilliance but inconsistency. That is not surprising. Being consistent deserves to be rewarded as much as winning.

Secondly, it is worth remembering that all motorsport at the international and national level is a team effort.
Winning the championship is not just a reward for the driver but everyone on that team who worked on or contributed to that result across the season.
Consistency and reliability should be rewarded more than inconsistency.

A third point is that if the points system was different drivers and teams would approach the championship differently so simply assuming the results would automatically been the same isn't a valid assumption. The approach by every team and driver would have been different even if only marginally in some cases.

You don't have a link to that article?