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Golf also has a similar individual world ranking AFAIK. I know nothing about the Castrol Rankings, and frankly have no wish to (my understanding is it is a corporate thing moree aimed at giving Castrol exposure than anything else. Having said that they from the words on here seem to be similar to the ATP and Golg ranking systems. Of course we could just give the drivers medals..... Last edited by E.B; 31 Jul 2010 at 11:37. |
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They obviously mean something, but in any case you would have to have it exclusive to F1.
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All the examples people are using are individual sports that require relatively little in the way of personal equipment. Granted cycling does require more support equipment and staff but not $50-$100 million dollars worth. A golf player requires a set of clubs and a caddy, a tennis player a coach and a racquet, a cyclist a couple of bikes and a team mate. Thats nothing compared with what even touring car racing requires, let alone Formula 1. Motor racing requires huge investment and technical support nowadays. If you tried to run Formula One without a series championship you would end up with something far more like trans-oceanic sailing than golf or tennis.... Is that what you really want? |
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Cycling is a team sport just the same as F1. There's a serious amount of money in it
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im not sure how much the money/costs would matter. if anything spending that much may require them to enter more events.
one of the things we see with golf is that the players need to develop a rhythm in order to make a run at one of the major tournaments. as a result you will see a very high attendance by the top people to a number of the relatively smaller events leading up to a major. rhythm and practice against your competitors will still be necessary and provide added incentive to turn up. although it may be more difficult to organize the shared transport costs, the fact that teams might be more on their own in this respect could have the knock on effect of requiring less staff and equipment at each race and ultimately make the sport cheaper. |
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Many issues with a (world) championship could be resolved by a new scoring point system. Until 1990 Formula 1 used to have a '9-6-4-3-2-1 system' with only the best 11 of 16 results counting. As one particular race wasn't that important for the championship, teams and drivers could take more risks and lose points. It didn't matter whether a driver won all races or 'just' 11 of them and crashed out in other five races: he could only score a maximum of 99 points.
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That's like comparing the cost of a moped with a sports car. A moped can be expensive but not nearly as much as a sports car... And please, stop using the Castrol rankings as an argument. That's just a load of worthless silliness on a stick. |
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It's nowhere near F1 expenditure, but it's not as simple or as cheap as popping down to your local bike shop and buying a decent mount for the season and going racing as Teretonga was seemingly implying. There's a reason why all the teams are backed by large companies. Like F1, it's those that have the best team around them, those with the best tacticians, the lightest bikes and the best team mates to support, that lead the sport - Contador isn't necessarily the best cyclist in the world in the same way that Jenson Button isn't And also I don't see what this has to do with whether an F1 without a championship is viable or not I wasn't, was I? I said it was a marketing ploy. I'm no fan. I am suggesting a ranking system but nothing like that - what I'm suggesting is closer to the NASCAR points system |
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I've got an even more controversial idea. Keep the constructors championship. get rid of the driver's championship. How's that for nutty ideas.
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My own idea would be to present the WDC to the driver with the most points (as they do now) and the WCC to the team for which that driver competes. Garage allocation & tv money would then be distributed in the normal way, in the order of the combined points scored by each team's drivers.
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If there is no series why do you need points....?
On the other hand if you wanted to encourage teams or manufacturers allow them to run a smany cars as they like and they ALL count for team points.... |
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