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Originally Posted by S griffin
Doesn’t mean much. The champion will always do the minimum to win the title most of the time. Look at 82. Rosberg settled for 5th in the final round because that’s all he needed. And then there’s 83. Once Prost retired, Piquet gave up his lead and eventually finished 3rd because he wanted to make sure of the title
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The thing is, more points means people can stay in the hunt in a competitive year (there were more open seasons in the early-mid 80's than today!) Therefore I think drivers are compelled to max out as more is on the line.
The dropped scores thing was always daft and that's the one would've made a difference in several cases.