Tony Fernandes Memorial Trophy

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 01 Jan 2017, 02:16

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 01 Jan 2017, 02:39

2016
Ineligible constructors: Mercedes, Ferrari, Williams, Red Bull, Force India, Toro Rosso, Sauber, McLaren

Drivers Championship
1/ Esteban Gutierrez - 115 points (8 wins)
2/ Romain Grosjean - 114 points (7 wins)
3/ Kevin Magnussen - 93 points (2 wins)
4/ Jolyon Palmer - 79 points (3 wins)
5/ Pascal Wehrlein - 54 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Esteban Ocon - 31 points (1 win)
7/ Rio Haryanto - 17 points (Best: 4th)

Constructors Championship
1/ Haas-Ferrari - 229 points (15 wins)
2/ Renault - 172 points (5 wins)
3/ Manor-Mercedes - 102 points (1 win)

The 2016 season saw the return of Renault as a works team, as well as the entry of the entirely new Haas team. Quickly, Haas showed themselves to be the class of the field, winning twelve of the opening fourteen races. Although they eventually dropped back into the pack, their two drivers Romain Grosjean and Esteban Gutierrez were locked in a two-horse battle for the Championship.

Going into the season finale at Abu Dhabi, it was the Mexican who had the edge, his 109 points giving him a five-point lead over his French team-mate. Grosjean did all he could, winning the race in dominant fashion, but Gutierrez fought past Renault's Palmer early in the race to claim second place and the Championship victory by just one point after a record-breaking 21 races.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 01 Jan 2017, 14:23

2015
Ineligible constructors: Mercedes, Red Bull, Williams, Ferrari, McLaren, Force India, Toro Rosso

Drivers Championship
1/ Romain Grosjean - 115 points (10 wins)
2/ Felipe Nasr - 102 points (4 wins)
3/ Marcus Ericsson - 85 points (2 wins)
4/ Pastor Maldonado - 64 points (3 wins)
5/ Will Stevens - 36 points (Best: 3rd)
6/ Roberto Merhi - 35 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Alexander Rossi - 13 points (Best: 3rd)

Constructors Championship
1/ Sauber-Ferrari - 187 points (6 wins)
2/ Lotus-Mercedes - 179 points (13 wins)
3/ Manor-Ferrari - 84 points (Best: 2nd)

2015 saw a toe-to-toe battle between the reliability of the Sauber cars and the raw pace of the Mercedes-powered Lotus team. Although Lotus claimed victory in all but three races they finished, their reliability was startlingly poor, thanks to a combination of a fragile chassis and erratic drivers. Going into the Mexican Grand Prix, it was Felipe Nasr who led the Drivers Championship with 94 points to Grosjean's 85. However, the Frenchman claimed victory in each of the last three races to render Nasr's results entirely academic for that Championship.

The Constructors Championship proved to be equally interesting: Sauber arrived in Abu Dhabi with 177 points and an eight-point lead over the faster Lotus. Nonetheless, Pastor Maldonado locked out pole position with Grosjean third: a relatively strong position from which to secure the necessary one-two finish that would win the Constructors title by a single point. Disaster struck, though, as Crashtor binned it into Turn One and handed the title to Sauber on a plate. It was a prize for their consistency: Ericsson earned 13 podiums in the first 14 Grands Prix, a time in which Maldonado only saw the chequered flag on six occasions.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 01 Jan 2017, 14:59

2014
Ineligible constructors: Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari, Lotus, McLaren, Force India, Sauber, Toro Rosso

Drivers Championship
1/ Valtteri Bottas - 148 points (10 wins)
2/ Felipe Massa - 132 points (9 wins)
3/ Jules Bianchi - 45 points (Best: 2nd)
4/ Max Chilton - 38 points (Best: 2nd)
5/ Marcus Ericsson - 32 points (Best: 3rd)
6/ Kamui Kobayashi - 29 points (Best: 3rd)
7/ Will Stevens - 4 points (Best: 3rd)
8/ Andre Lotterer - 0 points (Best: DNF)
9/ Alexander Rossi - 0 points (Best: DNP)

Constructors Championship
1/ Williams-Mercedes - 280 points (19 wins)
2/ Marussia-Ferrari - 83 points (Best: 2nd)
3/ Caterham-Renault - 65 points (Best: 3rd)

A truly dull season for the spectators had a tragic sting in the tail when Jules Bianchi crashed fatally at the Suzuka Circuit. Williams, newly powered by Mercedes, won all nineteen races of the season, and missed out on maximum points only because reliability cost them four second places. Had all their drivers finished every race, it would have been interesting to see which of the evenly matched pair would have come out on top, as Massa actually led 8-7 when both of them finished.

Further back, it was Bianchi who had done enough to be crowned the best of the rest, as the consistency shown by he and his British team-mate was enough to overhaul the ramshackle Caterham outfit.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 01 Jan 2017, 17:39

2013
Ineligible constructors: Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren, Lotus, Mercedes, Sauber, Force India, Williams

Drivers Championship
1/ Daniel Ricciardo - 130 points (11 wins)
2/ Jean-Eric Vergne - 108 points (7 wins)
3/ Charles Pic - 68 points (1 win)
4/ Jules Bianchi - 60 points (Best: 2nd)
5/ Giedo van der Garde - 52 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Max Chilton - 50 points (Best: 2nd)

Constructors Championship
1/ Toro Rosso-Ferrari - 238 points (18 wins)
2/ Caterham-Renault - 120 points (1 win)
3/ Marussia-Cosworth - 110 points (Best: 2nd)

Toro Rosso dominated the year, thanks in no small part to the excellent driving of Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne, but also to the woeful nature of their opposition. The only time that a Caterham or Marussia was able to finish above a Toro Rosso was when the latter suffered some sort of a mechanical problem, like at Yeongnam, when both Toro Rossos suffered brake failures in successive laps, leaving Charles Pic to take victory by less than a second from his Dutch team-mate.

All in all, though, it was a rather quiet season, as the poor reliability of the Toro Rossos (on eleven occasions, a Toro Rosso car failed to complete the race distance) often meant that spectators were robbed of a dramatic battle for the lead. The notable exceptions were Hungary, where Vergne passed Ricciardo on Lap 66 to take the win, and Japan, where the Frenchman held off a late charge from his team-mate to win again.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 01 Jan 2017, 20:14

2012
Ineligible constructors: Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes, Force India, Sauber

Drivers Championship
1/ Kimi Raikkonen - 181 points (16 wins)
2/ Romain Grosjean - 66 points (2 wins)
3/ Daniel Ricciardo - 61 points (Best: 2nd)
4/ Jean-Eric Vergne - 57 points (1 win)
5/ Bruno Senna - 57 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Pastor Maldonado - 54 points (1 win)
7/ Vitaly Petrov - 11 points (Best: 5th)
8/ Heikki Kovalainen - 10 points (Best: 4th)
9/ Timo Glock - 9 points (Best: 4th)
10/ Charles Pic - 1 point (Best: 6th)
11/ Narain Karthikeyan - 1 point (Best: 6th)
12/ Pedro de la Rosa - 0 points (Best: 7th)

Constructors Standings
1/ Lotus-Renault - 247 points (18 wins)
2/ Toro Rosso-Ferrari - 118 points (1 win)
3/ Williams-Renault - 111 points (1 win)
4/ Caterham-Renault - 21 points (Best: 4th)
5/ Marussia-Cosworth - 10 points (Best: 4th)
6/ Hispania-Cosworth - 1 point (Best: 6th)

A far larger field than usual contested this year's TFMT, with no fewer than five teams failing to score a sixth place in 2011 in addtion to the new Lotus Renault team. And it was the Lotus Renault team that reigned supreme in 2012, owing mostly to an all-conquering performance from Kimi Raikkonen, who was able to win 80% of this season's races. Never did he finish lower than fourth, dropping just 19 points across the 20-race season.

Behind him, there was an almighty scrap between Grosjean, the Toro Rossos and the Williamses, all five of whom were split by only 12 points. When all was said and done, the Lotus' raw pace was enough to see Grosjean safely into second place, though one can't help but feel that Maldonado and Senna wasted the potential of an unusually fast Williams car.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 01 Jan 2017, 21:52

2011
Ineligible constructors: Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes, Renault, Williams, Force India, Sauber

Drivers Championship
1/ Jaime Alguersuari - 131 points (10 wins)
2/ Sebastien Buemi - 116 points (8 wins)
3/ Heikki Kovalainen - 67 points (Best: 2nd)
4/ Jarno Trulli - 53 points (1 win)
5/ Jerome d'Ambrosio - 40 points (Best: 3rd)
6/ Timo Glock - 38 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Vitantonio Liuzzi - 16 points (Best: 3rd)
8/ Daniel Ricciardo - 15 points (Best: 4th)
9/ Narain Karthikeyan - 4 points (Best: 5th)
10/ Karun Chandhok - 1 point (Best: 6th)

Constructors Championship
1/ Toro Rosso-Ferrari - 247 points (18 wins)
2/ Lotus-Renault - 121 points (1 win)
3/ Virgin-Cosworth - 78 points (Best: 2nd)
4/ Hispania-Cosworth - 35 points (Best: 3rd)

When Sebastien Buemi had won all of the first six Grands Prix, and a clear hierarchy amongst the four constructors already clearly apparent, it looked as if this season would be one for the purists. At Canada, however, Alguersuari started from the pit lane but dragged his Toro Rosso all the way to the front of the field, eventually winning by a dozen seconds. From that point on, it was advantage Alguersuari as the talented Spaniard turned a 36-point deficit into a 15-point advantage, a most dramatic reversal of fortunes for the team-mates.

Lower down the field, Heikki Kovalainen and Daniel Ricciardo both outclassed their team-mates, but Glock and d'Ambrosio were locked in a titanic battle, rarely split by more than the three points earned by d'Ambrosio in the opening round; a battle that saw youth narrowly triumph over experience.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 01 Jan 2017, 23:55

2010
Ineligible constructors: Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes, Toyota, Williams, Renault, Force India

Drivers Championship
1/ Nico Rosberg - 143 points (13 wins)
2/ Michael Schumacher - 101 points (4 wins)
3/ Kamui Kobayashi - 57 points (1 win)
4/ Jaime Alguersuari - 54 points (Best: 2nd)
5/ Sebastien Buemi - 49 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Pedro de la Rosa - 28 points (1 win)
7/ Nick Heidfeld - 13 points (Best: 3rd)
8/ Heikki Kovalainen - 18 points (Best: 4th)
9. Jarno Trulli - 7 points (Best: 5th)
10/ Lucas di Grassi - 6 points (Best: 4th)
11/ Karun Chandhok - 5 points (Best: 5th)
12/ Bruno Senna - 4 points (Best: 5th)
13/ Timo Glock - 3 points (Best: 6th)
14 /Sakon Yamamoto - 0 points (Best: 7th)
15/ Christian Klien - 0 points (Best: 9th)

Constructors Championship
1/ Mercedes - 244 points (17 wins)
2/ Toro Rosso-Ferrari - 101 points (Best: 2nd)
3/ Sauber-Ferrari - 98 points (2 wins)
4/ Lotus-Cosworth - 25 points (Best: 4th)
5/ Virgin-Cosworth - 9 points (Best: 4th)
6/ Hispania-Cosworth - 9 points (Best: 5th)

There was a larger than usual field for this season thanks to three entirely new teams (Hispania, Lotus, Virgin) being joined by Mercedes (built loosely on the foundations of last year's Brawn), Sauber (no longer owned or powered by BMW) and Toro Rosso (who qualified in the usual fashion). It very quickly became clear that Mercedes were the fastest team, with Lotus, Virgin and Hispania a very very long way behind, but the real story of this season was in the midfield.

As is so often the case, we were treated to a tortoise-and-hare clash between the reasonably reliable Toro Rosso and the unreasonably unreliable Sauber. In the end, two wins were not enough to make up for only seeing the chequered flag twice in the first twelve attempts, and Sauber never quite caught up with the young Toro Rosso pairing.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 00:15

2009
Ineligible constructors: Ferrari, McLaren, BMW, Renault, Toyota, Toro Rosso, Red Bull, Williams

Drivers Championship
1/ Jenson Button - 139 points (14 wins)
2/ Rubens Barrichello - 109 points (4 wins)
3/ Adrian Sutil - 46 points (Best: 2nd)
4/ Giancarlo Fisichella - 45.5 points (1 win)
5/ Vitantonio Liuzzi - 15 points (Best: 3rd)

Constructors Championship
1/ Brawn-Mercedes - 248 points (18 wins)
2/ Force India-Mercedes - 106.5 points (1 win)

2009 was a season dominated by the Brawn fairytale, and it was clear very early on that their victory was near-certain. Jenson Button's consistent performance, in which he won all but five races (one of which he retired from) showed his class to all the world, while Barrichello had to settle once again for the Number Two's role.

For Force India, meanwhile, the season was dominated by Giancarlo Fisichella's stunning drive at Spa, in which he out-paced the Brawn cars on merit to lead every lap from pole position to the chequered flag. After that race, he decided to leave on a high, and left behind a points tally impressive enough that it took Sutil until the very last race of the season to beat it, and then only by half a point.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 00:31

2008
Ineligible constructors: Ferrari, BMW, Renault, Williams, Red Bull, Toyota, Toro Rosso, Super Aguri

Drivers Championship
1/ Lewis Hamilton - 148 points (12 wins)
2/ Heikki Kovalainen - 114 points (6 wins)
3/ Giancarlo Fisichella - 47 points (Best: 2nd)
4/ Adrian Sutil - 26 points (Best: 3rd)

Constructors Championship
1/ McLaren-Mercedes - 262 points (18 wins)
2/ Force India-Ferrari - 73 points (Best: 2nd)

McLaren, only eligible for this competition thanks to the FIA disqualifying them from the previous year's World Constructors Championship, saved the fans from a one-on-one battle between the two Force India team-mates: a blessing, as Fisichella quickly demonstrated his class by scoring almost two points to every one scored by Sutil.

Despite the eventual 34-point margin, the battle at the front was far closer than it looked: going into the final four races, in which Kovalainen's McLaren was cursed by the reliability gods, there were still only six points between the pair. Three races before that, Kovalainen had been within two points, and three races before that (at the conclusion of the French Grand Prix) he had in fact been leading his esteemed team-mate by two points. It was a more engaging battle than the final stats suggest.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 01:24

2007
Ineligible constructors: Renault, Ferrari, McLaren, Honda, BMW, Toyota, Red Bull, Williams

Drivers Championship
1/ Takuma Sato - 107 points (8 wins)
2/ Anthony Davidson - 75 points (4 wins)
3/ Vitantonio Liuzzi - 53 points (1 win)
4/ Adrian Sutil - 45 points (1 win)
5/ Christijan Albers - 26 points (1 win)
6/ Scott Speed - 22 points (1 win)
7/ Sebastian Vettel - 22 points (1 win)
8/ Sakon Yamamoto - 12 points (Best: 3rd)
9/ Markus Winkelhock - 0 points (Best: DNF)

Constructors Championship
1/ Super Aguri-Honda - 182 points (12 wins)
2/ Toro Rosso-Ferrari - 97 points (3 wins)
3/ Spyker-Ferrari - 83 points (2 wins)

Relative stability in the off-season meant that the only three entries this season were Toro Rosso, Super Aguri and Spyker (formerly Midland), three teams blessed with limited budget somewhat mediocre reliability - to the extent that only 56% of entries reached the finish line this season.

With reliability playing such a major part in the season, it makes sense that the team that finished most often also finished up at the top of the pile: Super Aguri, the punchline of 2006, became the class of the 2007 season, despite the Toro Rosso team having arguably more raw pace in their locker.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 02 Jan 2017, 12:11

Is there going to be a 1950-edition of this championship?

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 12:39

dr-baker wrote:Is there going to be a 1950-edition of this championship?

I see no reason not to go all the way back. It could get a little bit fiddly with shared drives and half-points and things, but that is rather the point of alternate championships. Working off the top of my head, I think 1996 is going to be a popular season, but I may be wrong - I've not actually worked any of these out in advance.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 13:21

2006
Ineligible constructors: Renault, McLaren, Ferrari, Toyota, Williams, Red Bull

Drivers Championship
1/ Jenson Button - 117 points (10 wins)
2/ Nick Heidfeld - 82 points (4 wins)
3/ Rubens Barrichello - 79 points (3 wins)
4/ Vitantonio Liuzzi - 45 points (Best: 2nd)
5/ Jacques Villeneuve - 36 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Scott Speed - 34 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Robert Kubica - 24 points (1 win)
8/ Tiago Monteiro - 9 points (Best: 4th)
9/ Christijan Albers - 9 points (Best: 5th)
10/ Takuma Sato - 4 points (Best: 4th)
11/ Franck Montagny - 1 point (Best 6th)
12/ Yuji Ide - 0 points (Best: 8th)
13/ Sakon Yamamoto - 0 points (Best: 8th)

Constructors Championship
1/ Honda - 196 points (13 wins)
2/ BMW - 142 points (4 wins)
3/ Toro Rosso-Cosworth - 79 points (Best: 2nd)
4/ Midland-Ferrari - 18 points (Best: 4th)
5/ Super Aguri-Honda - 5 points (Best: 4th)

To look at the tables as the season drew to a close was to assume that 2006 was a year in which Jenson Button easily claimed the Championship, thanks to being in the best car. While that was partially true, it is an impression aided by a dominant run in which he won five of the last six races. Before that, things were actually very close at the top: after Canada, Button and Heidfeld were locked on 51 points with Barrichello five behind. The Brazilian won in America to go top on his own, before Heidfeld's victory in France gave him the lone lead. A shame, then, that Button made the rest of the season into a cake-walk.

Further down the field, the three new teams all had contrasting seasons: Toro Rosso looked quite at home in Formula One as Vitantonio Liuzzi pretty much matched the performances of Villeneuve before the Canadian retired from the sport. Midland had a quiet year of consolidation in which both Monteiro and Albers performed competently in a sluggish car. Super Aguri, however, were comically poor. Not until the twelfth round did they earn a point, courtesy of Montagny finishing sixth out of six. They wouldn't see points again until Japan, where Sato heroically dragged his car into sixth ahead of Monteiro and Speed. Bizarrely, at the Brazilian Grand Prix he put the Super Aguri in fourth place out of ten finishers, leaving bookmakers everywhere scratching their heads.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 13:56

2005
Ineligible constructors: Ferrari, BAR, Renault, Williams, McLaren, Sauber, Toyota

Drivers Championship
1/ David Coulthard - 128 points (11 wins)
2/ Tiago Monteiro - 91 points (3 wins)
3/ Christian Klien - 76 points (3 wins)
4/ Narain Karthikeyan - 55 points (1 win)
5/ Christijan Albers - 41 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Vitantonio Liuzzi - 16 points (1 win)
7/ Robert Doornbos - 16 points (Best: 3rd)
8/ Patrick Friesacher - 12 points (Best: 3rd)

Constructors Championship
1/ Red Bull-Cosworth - 220 points (15 wins)
2/ Jordan-Toyota - 146 points (4 wins)
3/ Minardi-Cosworth - 69 points (Best: 2nd)

The biggest surprise for David Coulthard, whose Championship looked to be a formality from the moment the chequered flag fell at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, must have been that the identity of his main title rival was not Christian Klien, but Portuguese Jordan driver Tiago Monteiro.

Owing partly to the patchy reliability of the Red Bull (Monteiro never actually finished ahead of Coulthard if both made race distance) and partly to the poor pace of Klien, Jordan were able to win four Grands Prix (Monaco, America and Belgium for Monteiro, Hungary for Karthikeyan). Klien, meanwhile, endured a torrid time of things, not securing his first victory until Monza, by which time his team-mate had already won ten times.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 14:05

2004
Ineligible constructors: Ferrari, Williams, McLaren, Renault, BAR, Sauber, Jaguar, Toyota, Jordan

Drivers Championship
1/ Zsolt Baumgartner - 98 points (8 wins)
2/ Gianmaria Bruni - 92 points (8 wins)

Constructors Championship
1/ Minardi-Cosworth - 190 points (16 wins)

Minardi were dominant this season, but only because they were faced with no competition whatsoever. Literally none, as no other team qualified, and there were no new entries for 2004. The Championship was decided entirely by reliability: on those rare occasions where both Minardis finished, Bruni finished ahead of Baumgartner by 3-2, but the Hungarian saw one more chequered flag than his Italian team-mate meaning that he turned what should have been a four-point deficit into a six-point lead. In fairness to him, he did secure the Championship by keeping his team-mate behind him in a nerveless drive in Brazil.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 14:58

2003
Ineligible constructors: Ferrari, Williams, McLaren, Renault, Sauber, Jordan, Jaguar, BAR, Minardi*, Toyota*
* Owing to no teams failing to score points, Minardi and Toyota, who finished joint-last, have been made eligible.

Drivers Championship
1/ Christiano da Matta - 114 points (9 wins)
2/ Jos Verstappen - 59 points (2 wins)
3/ Olivier Panis - 48 points (3 wins)
4/ Justin Wilson - 29 points (1 win)
5/ Nicolas Kiesa - 25 points (1 win)

Constructors Championship
1/ Toyota - 162 points (12 wins)
2/ Minardi-Cosworth - 113 points (4 wins)

In a Championship season that only went ahead due to an on-the-fly decision that, if there were no pointless qualifiers from the previous year, the lowest placed constructor would be eligible, it was Toyota who romped clear of Minardi in a far faster car. Far faster, perhaps, but also rather fragile, which allowed all of the Minardi drivers to complete at least one race victory.

Although Panis was reduced to third place on the Drivers standings with less than half his team-mate's points, he actually had a surprisingly competitive season, beating da Matta 4-3 on those occasions when both drivers finished. Unfortunately, that rarely happened, and the missing car was usually Panis'.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 02 Jan 2017, 16:08

Aislabie wrote:
dr-baker wrote:Is there going to be a 1950-edition of this championship?

I see no reason not to go all the way back. It could get a little bit fiddly with shared drives and half-points and things, but that is rather the point of alternate championships. Working off the top of my head, I think 1996 is going to be a popular season, but I may be wrong - I've not actually worked any of these out in advance.

My point being, how are going to decide which constructors will be eligible for 1950, considering that there was no previous season?

Aislabie wrote:The Tony Fernandes Memorial Trophy
This championship is very simple: only those constructors who failed to score any points in the previous season will be eligible for the next season.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 16:47

dr-baker wrote:My point being, how are going to decide which constructors will be eligible for 1950, considering that there was no previous season?

Delahaye, ERA, Ferrari, Maserati and Talbot-Lago would be ineligible. This would leave Alfa Romeo, Alta, Cooper, Milano and Simca-Gordini to battle for the 1950 Championship.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 17:18

2002
Ineligible constructors: Ferrari, McLaren, Williams, Sauber, Jordan, BAR, Jaguar, Prost, Arrows

Drivers Championship
1/ Jenson Button - 98 points (8 wins)
2/ Jarno Trulli - 66 points (5 wins)
3/ Mika Salo - 66 points (2 wins)
4/ Mark Webber - 49 points (1 win)
5/ Allan McNish - 42 points (1 win)
6/ Alex Yoong - 18 points (Best: 3rd)
7/ Anthony Davidson - 0 points (Best: DNF)

Constructors Championship
1/ Renault - 164 points (13 wins)
2/ Toyota - 108 points (3 wins)
3/ Minardi-Asiatech - 67 points (1 win)

The introduction of two new works teams into the sport meant that Minardi had plenty of competition this season, all of it faster than they were. That said, the Minardi car was far faster in the hands of Mark Webber (who won the season opener at his home circuit) than the hands of Alex Yoong (who qualified last, three seconds off the pace at his home Grand Prix, from which he retired).

Thanks to the fragility of Jarno Trulli's Renault R202, the Drivers Championship was a formality for Jenson Button, who won by a clear 32 points despite losing out 4-2 to his team-mate in races they both finished. More impressive was the performance of Mika Salo, who drove the wheels off his Toyota to equal Trulli's points tally with far inferior equipment.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 17:33

Personally, I'm loving the results this is throwing up so far; fifteen seasons in, I have thirteen different Drivers Champions (including three certified Rejects, one of whom is our Hungarian Lord and Saviour) and fourteen different Constructors Champions. And the '90s are where it starts to get really weird...

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 17:52

2001
Ineligible constructors: Ferrari, McLaren, Williams, Benetton, BAR, Jordan, Arrows, Sauber, Jaguar

Drivers Championship
1/ Jean Alesi - 110 points (10 wins)
2/ Fernando Alonso - 51 points (1 win)
3/ Luciano Burti - 38 points (2 wins)
4/ Heinz-Harald Frentzen - 26 points (2 wins)
5/ Tarso Marques - 26 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Tomas Enge - 16 points (1 win)
7/ Gaston Mazzacane - 6 points (Best: 2nd)
8/ Alex Yoong - 4 points (Best: 3rd)

Constructors Championship
1/ Prost-Acer - 196 points (16 wins)
2/ Minardi-European - 81 points (1 win)

2001 was a season of tumult and French domination. Prost, trying to recover from a disastrous 2000 while continuously shedding sponsors and changing drivers the same way most people change underwear, won each of the first sixteen races, but the French team's dominance was most complete in the first half of the season, when their lead car was piloted by home talent Jean Alesi. So complete was his control that after the season's eighth Grand Prix in Canada, he had scored the maximum 80 points. His nearest challenger, Luciano Burti, had already fallen 62 points behind.

Once his Championship lead mas mathematically impregnable, Alesi relinquished his race seat for the equally impressive Heinz-Harald Frentzen. Just as impressive as Alesi, though hindered by the equipment at his disposal, was the young Spaniard Fernando Alonso, who won the season finale at Suzuka by holding off second-placed Frentzen.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 18:29

2000
Ineligible constructors: Ferrari, McLaren, Jordan, Williams, Benetton, Prost, Sauber, Arrows, Minardi

Drivers Championship
1/ Jacques Villeneuve - 110 points (9 wins)
2/ Eddie Irvine - 76 points (2 wins)
3/ Ricardo Zonta - 65 points (4 wins)
4/ Johnny Herbert - 51 points (2 wins)
5/ Luciano Burti - 4 points (Best: 3rd)

Constructors Championship
1/ BAR-Honda - 175 points (13 wins)
2/ Jaguar-Cosworth - 131 points (4 wins)

In the second half of the 2000 season, the superior pace of the Honda-powered BAR car began to really show, especially in the hands of Jacques Villeneuve. In the first half, however, both teams and all four drivers appeared evenly matched: after the Monaco Grand Prix, all four drivers were split by just four points (Herbert 32, Villeneuve 30, Zonta 29, Irvine 28).

Unfortunately for them, and for the spectators, it was after the Monaco Grand Prix that Zonta and Herbert in particular began to find the race distance to be remarkably elusive, allowing Villeneuve and Irvine to finish several successive races in first and second.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 19:09

1999
Ineligible constructors: McLaren, Ferrari, Williams, Jordan, Benetton, Sauber, Arrows, Stewart, Prost

Drivers Championship
1/ Marc Gene - 84 points (7 wins)
2/ Ricardo Zonta - 38 points (2 wins)
3/ Luca Badoer - 36 points (Best: 2nd)
4/ Jacques Villeneuve - 34 points (3 wins)
5/ Mika Salo - 20 points (2 wins)
6/ Stephane Sarrazin - 0 points (Best: DNF)

Constructors Championship
1/ Minardi-Ford - 120 points (7 wins)
2/ BAR-Supertec - 92 points (7 wins)

It was apparent early on that the 1999 season would not be a question of which driver best used the fastest car. After four Grands Prix, there had only been four finishers in total, three of which were at the San Marino Grand Prix.

Marc Gene's eventual points tally of 84 points could not be overhauled by any of his competitors as nobody else saw enough chequered flags. Gene finished ten races, Badoer six, Zonta five, Villeneuve four and Salo two. In a sixteen-race season, this is quite hilarious.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 19:19

1998
Ineligible constructors: Williams, Ferrari, Benetton, McLaren, Jordan, Prost, Sauber, Arrows, Stewart, Tyrrell

Drivers Championship
1/ Shinji Nakano - 100 points (10 wins)
2/ Esteban Tuero - 36 points (3 wins)

Constructors Championship
1/ Minardi-Ford - 136 points (13 wins)

With only Minardi qualified to enter the 1998 Championship, there were some pretty boring races - especially given that young Argentine Esteban Tuero only managed to finish a quarter of the races. Shinji Nakano, when he finished those races, was never beaten.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 21:22

1997
Ineligible constructors: Williams, Ferrari, Benetton, McLaren, Jordan, Sauber, Tyrrell

Drivers Championship
1/ Olivier Panis - 65 points (5 wins)
2/ Damon Hill - 63 points (4 wins)
3/ Jarno Trulli - 62 points (4 wins)
4/ Shinji Nakano - 45 points (1 win)
5/ Pedro Diniz - 39 points (2 wins)
6/ Jan Magnussen - 28 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Ukyo Katyama - 28 points (Best: 2nd)
8/ Rubens Barrichello - 17 points (1 win)
9/ Tarso Marques - 15 points (Best: 3rd)
10/ Ricardo Rosset - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
=/ Vincenzo Sospiri - 0 points (Best: DNQ)

Constructors Championship
1/ Prost-Mugen Honda - 152 points (9 wins)
2/ Arrows-Yamaha - 102 points (6 wins)
3/ Minardi-Ford - 63 points (1 win)
4/ Stewart-Ford - 45 points (1 win)
5/ Lola-Ford - 0 points (Best: DNQ)

1997 was an absolute classic season, although it was a moment of horrible misfortune on Lap 52 of the Canadian Grand Prix that made it so. When Olivier Panis crashed in Montreal and broke both his legs, it brought his Championship charge to an agonising halt: in the first seven races of the season, he had already racked up 49 points.

That Canadian Grand Prix was also the first time that both Arrows drivers made it to the finish line, ending a pointless run of four Grands Prix and marking the start of Damon Hill's Championship challenge. However, the new favourite was Panis' replacement, Jarno Trulli, who added three wins and two second places to the 20 points he had already earned at Minardi. Just as he looked to have the Championship in the bag, Panis returned to fitness and, given that Nakano's seat was tied to the Mugen Honda engines, he replaced Trulli. With just one race to go, Damon Hill took the lead with 63 points, with Trulli second on 62 but unable to add to it and Panis in third on 55. Nonetheless, it was Panis who took the win and Panis who took a miracle Championship despite only participating in ten races.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 21:33

1996
Ineligible constructors: Benetton, Williams, Ferrari, McLaren, Ligier, Sauber, Footwork, Tyrrell, Minardi

Drivers Championship
1/ Luca Badoer - 20 points (2 wins)
2/ Andrea Montermini - 10 points (1 win)

Constructors Championship
1/ Forti-Ford - 30 points (3 wins)

1996 was a remarkable season for how rubbish it was. Three teams qualified for this season, but unfortunately, one went bankrupt in the middle of last season (Simtek), one met the same fate before the season started (Pacific) and the last one (Forti) bit the dust ten rounds into 1996. Nonetheless, as the last team standing, they won this year's Championship in incredibly rejectful fashion.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 22:02

1995
Ineligible constructors: Williams, Benetton, Ferrari, McLaren, Jordan, Ligier, Tyrrell, Sauber, Footwork, Minardi

Drivers Championship
1/ Pedro Diniz - 88 points (6 wins)
2/ Roberto Moreno - 42 points (2 wins)
3/ Andrea Montermini - 36 points (3 wins)
4/ Bertrand Gachot - 22 points (1 win)
5/ Domenico Schiattarella - 16 points (1 win)
6/ Jos Verstappen - 10 points (1 win)
7/ Giovanni Lavaggi - 0 points (Best: DNF)
8/ Jean-Denis Délétraz - 0 wins (Best: DNF)

Constructors Championship
1/ Forti-Ford - 130 points (8 wins)
2/ Pacific-Ford - 58 points (4 wins)
3/ Simtek-Ford - 26 points (2 wins)

The 1995 season got off to a slightly surreal start when Simtek, clearly the fastest of the three teams, ran out of money just five races into the season, failing to take the start line in Monaco. That left a slightly closer battle between Forti and Pacific. Both teams had Ford engines, but Forti had the marginally better chassis and that was enough to keep them in front of the rest of the field, most of the time.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 22:27

1994
Ineligible constructors: Williams, McLaren, Benetton, Ferrari, Ligier, Lotus, Sauber, Minardi, Footwork, Larrousse

Drivers Championship
1/ Mark Blundell - 58 points (4 wins)
2/ Ukyo Katyama - 40 points (4 wins)
3/ Jean-Marc Gounon - 38 points (2 wins)
4/ David Brabham - 24 points (Best: 2nd)
5/ Roland Ratzenberger - 10 points (1 win)
6/ Domenico Schiattarella - 4 points (Best: 3rd)
7/ Bertrand Gachot - 0 points (Best: DNF)
8/ Paul Belmondo - 0 points (Best: DNF)
9/ Taki Inoue - 0 points (Best: DNF)
10/ Andrea Montermini - 0 points (Best: DNQ)

Constructors Championship
1/ Tyrrell-Yamaha - 98 points (8 wins)
2/ Simtek-Ford - 76 points (3 wins)
3/ Pacific-Ilmor - 0 points (Best: DNF)

The 1994 season took place under a dark cloud owing to the tragic death of Simtek's Roland Ratzenberger at the San Marino Grand Prix, but take place it did, with Tyrrell as the clear dominant team and Ukyo Katyama as the clear dominant driver. Why, then, was Ukyo Katyama not the Drivers Champion? In a word, Yamaha: his Yamaha-powered vehicle sputtered to a stop no less than twelve times, compared to the ten of his team-mate. Jean-Marc Gounon impressed for Simtek, only to lose his seat when Domenico Schiattarella and Taki Inoue came in with larger chequebooks and took his seat away.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 02 Jan 2017, 23:02

1993
Ineligible constructors: Williams, McLaren, Benetton, Ferrari, Lotus, Tyrrell, Footwork, Ligier, Jordan, Minardi

Drivers Championship
1/ Philippe Alliot - 68 points (3 wins)
2/ JJ Lehto - 62 points (5 wins)
3/ Karl Wendlinger - 60 points (5 wins)
4/ Erik Comas - 51 points (3 wins)
5/ Luca Badoer - 21 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Michele Alboreto - 19 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Toshio Suzuki - 12 points (Best: 2nd)

Constructors Championship
1/ Larrousse-Lambourghini - 131 points (6 wins)
1/ Sauber-Ilmor - 122 points (10 wins)
2/ Lola-Ferrari - 41 points (Best: 2nd)

1993 was a competitive season as the evenly matched Sauber team-mates had to juke it out for the victory. Each of them finished seven Grands Prix, with Wendlinger prevailing over his talented Finnish team-mate on both occasions that two Saubers saw the chequered flag. However, the Austrian twice finished behind one or both of the usually slower Lambourghini-powered Larrousse cars costing him a total of ten valuable points.

Not only did that drop him behind his team-mate, but also behind Philippe Alliot, who had earned 68 points with a vast quantity of second-places in the first fourteen rounds of the season before being inexplicably replaced by Toshio Suzuki for the last two rounds. Alliot had by this time belied his crash-happy reputation to finish seven successive Grands Prix and move into the Championship lead. That said, if Lehto finished second or better in the Australian Grand Prix, he would win the title. He started off well by joining his team-mate on the front row, but threw away the Championship with 23 laps left when he spun his Sauber arse-first into the wall and retired.

Ciaran · Post by **Ciaran** » 03 Jan 2017, 00:14

Wow. Who knew Pacific were so rubbish that they couldn't even score any points in 1994? :pantano:

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 03 Jan 2017, 12:46

1992
Ineligible constructors: McLaren, Williams, Ferrari, Benetton, Jordan, Tyrrell, Minardi, Dallara, Lotus, Brabham, Lola

Drivers Championship
1/ Michele Alboreto - 99 points (7 wins)
2/ Erik Comas - 62 points (4 wins)
3/ Aguri Suzuki - 52 points (2 wins)
4/ Thierry Boutsen - 37 points (1 win)
5/ Karl Wendlinger - 26 points (1 win)
6/ Paul Belmondo - 26 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Bertrand Gachot - 22 points (1 win)
8/ Ukyo Katyama - 13 points (Best: 2nd)
9/ Emmanuele Naspetti - 8 points (Best: 2nd)
10/ Eric van de Poele - 6 points (Best: 2nd)
11/ Jan Lammers - 4 points (Best: 3rd)
12/ Gabriele Tarquini - 2 points (Best: 5th)
13/ Andrea Chiesa - 0 points (Best: DNF)
14/ Roberto Moreno - 0 points (Best: DNF)
15/ Perry McCarthy - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
16/ Alex Caffi - 0 points (Best: DNP)
17/ Enrico Bertaggia - 0 points (Best: DNP)

World Constructors Championship
1/ Footwork-Mugen Honda - 151 points (9 wins)
2/ Ligier-Renault - 99 points (5 wins)
3/ March-Ilmor - 56 points (1 win)
4/ Venturi-Lambourghini - 43 points (1 win)
5/ Fondmetal-Ford - 8 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Andrea Moda-Judd - 0 points (Best: DNF)

1992 was a strange season. At the front of the field, spectators were treated to a high-quality Championship battle between Alboreto and Comas, one which the Italian eventually won through a season's near-faultless driving. Each was backed up by a solid team-mate (Suzuki and Boutsen respectively), who would act as a rear-gunner to stop the likes of Gachot and Wendlinger getting involved too often.

All of which was in stark contrast to the backmarker teams: Fondmetal showed (very) occasional bursts of pace amongst a sea of mediocrity, but Andrea Moda could only dream of mediocrity, rooted as they were in a trench of incompetence. Neither would finish the season.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 03 Jan 2017, 12:49

I'll have to re-work 1993 a bit, as I forgot to include Larrousse. ALLIOTWINSLOL?

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 03 Jan 2017, 16:14

1991
Ineligible constructors: McLaren, Ferrari, Benetton, Williams, Tyrrell, Renault, Lola, Leyton House, Lotus, Brabham

Drivers Championship
1/ Andrea de Cesaris - 74 points (6 wins)
2/ Emmanuele Pirro - 48 points (3 wins)
3/ Thierry Boutsen - 41 points (1 win)
4/ Pierluigi Martini - 40 points (1 win)
5/ Bertrand Gachot - 38 points (1 win)
6/ Gianni Morbidelli - 37 points (1 win)
7/ JJ Lehto - 27 points (2 wins)
8/ Erik Comas - 21 points (Best: 3rd)
9/ Nicola Larini - 14 points (1 win)
10/ Gabriele Tarquini - 14 points (Best: 2nd)
11/ Alex Zanardi - 10 points (Best: 2nd)
12/ Alex Caffi - 7 points (Best: 2nd)
13/ Oliver Grouillard - 6 points (Best: 2nd)
14/ Eric van de Poele - 3 points (Best: 4th)
15/ Roberto Moreno - 3 points (Best: 4th)
16/ Michele Alboreto - 3 points (Best: 5th)
17/ Stefan Johansson - 0 points (Best: DNF)
18/ Michael Schumacher - 0 points (Best: DNF)
19/ Pedro Chaves - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
20/ Fabrizio Barbazza - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
21/ Naoki Hattori - 0 points (Best: DNQ)

World Constructors Championship
1/ Jordan-Ford - 125 points (7 wins)
2/ Minardi-Ferrari - 77 points (2 wins)
3/ Dallara-Judd - 75 points (5 wins)
4/ Ligier-Lamborghini - 62 points (1 win)
5/ Modena-Lamborghini - 17 points (1 win)
6/ Fondmetal-Ford - 14 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Footwork-Ford/Porsche* - 10 points (Best: 2nd)
8/ AGS-Ford - 6 points (Best: 2nd)
9/ Coloni-Ford - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
* Chassis constructors who use two different engines will have their results grouped together.

What is there to be said about the delightful chaos of 1991 that would properly sum up the openness of this year's Championships? Well, after the Canadian Grand Prix, there were eight drivers within six points of the Championship lead (Gachot 16, Pirro 16, Boutsen 16, Martini 15, Lehto 12, Larini 10, de Cesaris 10, Morbidelli 10) and already five different race-winners. On any given day, there could be a Jordan, a Minardi, a Dallara or a Ligier fighting for the lead on raw pace.

By the end of the British Grand Prix, a front-runner had emerged in Andrea de Cesaris (30), though Martini (27), Gachot (26), Boutsen (22) and Pirro (20) were all close on his tail. Ultimately, a mid-season winning streak was enough for Andrea de Cesaris to build a substantial lead that he would hold all the way to the end of the season, but what a season it was.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 03 Jan 2017, 17:17

1990
Ineligible constructors: McLaren, Williams, Ferrari, Benetton, Tyrrell, Lotus, Arrows, Dallara, Brabham, Onyx, Minardi, Rial, Ligier, AGS, Lola

Drivers Championship
1/ Mauricio Gugelmin - 46 points (4 wins)
2/ Ivan Capelli - 36 points (3 wins)
3/ Olivier Grouillard - 30 points (2 wins)
4/ Roberto Moreno - 6 points (Best: 2nd)
5/ Bertrand Gachot - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
6/ Claudio Lagnes - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
7/ Bruno Giacomelli - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
8/ Gary Brabham - 0 points (Best: DNQ)

Constructors Championship
1/ Leyton House-Judd - 82 points (7 wins)
2/ Osella-Ford - 30 points (2 wins)
3/ EuroBrun-Judd - 6 points (Best: 2nd)
4/ Coloni-Subaru/Ford* - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
5/ Life(-Judd)* - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
* Chassis constructors who use two different engines will have their results grouped together.

With Leyton House on the grid, none of the other teams could compete for the 1990 Championship. Leyton House's opponents were a who's who of incompetence: EuroBrun, Coloni and Life only made it onto the grid three times between them out of a combined 58 attempts, while Osella - though comparatively more successful - still only finished four races, each time the last classified runner. It just so happens that on two of those occasions, the last classified runner was also the first classified runner.

The victory for Leyton House, and for Gugelmin, was a victory for mediocrity over something far worse.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 03 Jan 2017, 18:15

1989
Ineligible constructors: McLaren, Ferrari, Benetton, Lotus, Arrows, March, Williams, Tyrrell, Rial, Minardi

Drivers Championship
1/ Andrea de Cesaris - 60 points (3 wins)
2/ Martin Brundle - 44 points (2 wins)
3/ Alex Caffi - 42 points (2 wins)
4/ Stefan Johansson - 30 points (3 wins)
5/ Olivier Grouillard - 30 points (1 win)
6/ Rene Arnoux - 28 points (1 win)
7/ Gabriele Tarquini - 26 points (2 wins)
8/ Stefano Modena - 22 points (1 win)
9/ Bertrand Gachot - 10 points (Best: 2nd)
10/ Nicola Larini - 3 points (Best: 4th)
11/ Roberto Moreno - 0 points (Best: DNF)
12/ Piercarlo Ghinzani - 0 points (Best: DNF)
13/ Bernd Schneider - 0 points (Best: DNF)
14/ JJ Lehto - 0 points (Best: DNF)
15/ Pierre-Henri Raphanel - 0 points (Best: DNF)
16/ Aguri Suzuki - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
17/ Gregor Foitek - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
18/ Yannick Dalmas - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
19/ Joachim Winkelhock - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
20/ Enrico Bertaggia - 0 points (Best: DNQ)
21/ Oscar Larrauri - 0 points (Best: DNQ)

Constructors Championship
1/ Dallara-Ford - 102 points (5 points)
2/ Brabham-Judd - 66 points (3 wins)
3/ Ligier-Ford - 58 points (2 wins)
4/ Onyx-Ford - 40 points (3 wins)
5/ AGS-Ford - 26 points (2 wins)
6/ Osella-Ford - 3 points (Best: 4th)
7/ Coloni-Ford - 0 points (Best: DNF)
8/ Zakspeed-Yamaha - 0 points (Best: DNF)
9/ EuroBrun-Judd - 0 points (Best: DNQ)

1989 proved to be a rather entertaining season as various drivers jostled to try to be the one to unseat Andrea de Cesaris at the top of the Championship standings. Nobody did so - the Dallara-Ford package run by BMS Scuderia Italia proving to be just a bit too quick - but two drivers in particular impressed everyone.

Most prominently, there was Stefan Johansson, who managed to wring a level of performance from his Onyx that looked mathematically impossible: every time the Swede finished a race, he did so as the comfortable winner. A shame, then, that his Onyx was less reliable than a BBC background check. Also impressive was Gabriele Tarquini, who ensured that his AGS was an increasingly regular fixture at the top end of the field - when it could be counted on to see him through to the end of the race. But neither had the machinery to stop de Cesaris, so he and his team were 1989 Champions.

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 03 Jan 2017, 19:58

I am slightly confused here, I am assuming if a team changes owners then its previous years score in the previous guise does not matter, allowing Renault in 2016 and manor in 2015. However why are Torro Rosso in the 2013 championship? They scored points in 2012 right?

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 03 Jan 2017, 20:40

1988
Ineligible constructors: Williams, McLaren, Lotus, Ferrari, Benetton, Tyrrell, Arrows, Lola, Zakspeed, Ligier, AGS, March

Drivers Championship
1/ Alex Caffi - 56 points (4 wins)
2/ Luis Perez-Sala - 48 points (2 wins)
3/ Andrea de Cesaris - 42 points (3 wins)
4/ Stefano Modena - 35 points (2 wins)
5/ Pierluigi Martini - 33 points (2 wins)
6/ Gabriele Tarquini - 20 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Nicola Larini - 16 points (1 win)
8/ Oscar Larrauri - 10 points (Best: 2nd)
9/ Adrian Campos - 6 points (Best:2nd)

Constructors Championship
1/ Minardi-Ford - 87 points (4 wins)
2/ Dallara-Ford - 58 points (4 wins)
3/ EuroBrun-Ford - 45 points (2 wins)
4/ Rial-Ford - 42 points (3 wins)
5/ Coloni-Ford - 20 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ Osella-Alfa Romeo - 14 points (1 win)

In 1988, all the teams were quite equally matched, in the sense that they were all pretty crap. The quickest of the cars (the Rial) was in the hands of the quickest of the drivers (Andrea de Cesaris), but the quickest of the drivers often found himself in the wall, or in the gravel, or back in the garage after some sort of mechanical failure.

Instead, it was the calm control of Alex Caffi that won the day, as he piloted his Scuderia Italia branded Dallara to the finish line more often than any other driver managed. Meanwhile, the Constructors Championship went to Minardi, who recovered from their disastrous Motori Moderni experiment to enter a reasonably adequate car that made it to the finish enough times to rack up 87 points.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 03 Jan 2017, 21:35

1987
Ineligible constructors: Williams, McLaren, Lotus, Ferrari, Ligier, Benetton, Tyrrell, Lola, Brabham, Arrows

Drivers Championship
1/ Pascal Fabre - 57 points (3 wins)
2/ Chritian Danner - 52 points (4 wins)
3/ Martin Brundle - 46 points (4 wins)
4/ Alessandro Nannini - 26 points (2 wins)
5/ Roberto Moreno - 10 points (1 win)
6/ Adrian Campos - 6 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Alex Caffi - 4 points (Best: 3rd)
8/ Gabriele Tarquini - 0 points (Best: DNF)
9/ Nicola Larini - 0 points (Best: DNF)
10/ Franco Forini - 0 points (Best: DNF)

Constructors Championship
1/ Zakspeed - 98 points (8 wins)
2/ AGS-Ford - 67 point (4 wins)
3/ Minardi-Motori Moderni - 32 points (2 wins)
4/ Osella-Alfa Romeo - 4 points (Best: 3rd)
5/ Coloni-Ford - 0 points (Best: DNF)

As the saying goes, in order to finish first, first you must finish. Never has that been truer than the 1987 season, in which the car which was at best the third- and quite possibly the fourth-fastest was steered to the Drivers Championship by a man who simply refused to get caught up in any trouble. By finishing nine of the first ten races, Pascal Fabre built up enough points to see off the challenge of the two high-quality Zakspeed drivers, who barely managed to finish nine races between them.

Aislabie · Post by **Aislabie** » 03 Jan 2017, 22:32

1986
Ineligible constructors: McLaren, Ferrari, Williams, Lotus, Brabham, Ligier, Arrows, Tyrrell

Drivers Championship
1/ Gerhard Berger - 60 points (4 wins)]
2/ Jonathan Palmer - 59 points (4 wins)
3/ Teo Fabi - 42 points (3 wins)
4/ Patrick Tambay - 37 points (2 win)
5/ Alan Jones - 30 points (2 wins)
6/ Huub Rothngatter - 9 points (Best: 2nd)
7/ Allen Berg - 9 points (Best: 3rd)
8/ Andrea de Cesaris - 6 points (Best: 2nd)
9/ Alessando Nannini - 5 points (Best: 4th)
10/ Alex Caffi - 4 points (Best: 3rd)
11/ Piercarlo Ghinzani - 2 points (Best: 5th)
12/ Christian Danner - 0 points (Best: DNF)
13/ Ivan Capelli - 0 points (Best: DNF)
14/ Eddie Cheever - 0 points (Best: DNF)

Constructors Championship
1/ Benetton-BMW - 102 points (7 wins)
2/ Zakspeed - 68 points (4 wins)
3/ Lola-Hart/Ford* - 67 points (4 wins)
4/ Osella-Alfa Romeo - 15 points (Best: 3rd)
5/ Minardi-Motori Moderni - 11 points (Best: 2nd)
6/ AGS-Motori Moderni - 0 points (Best: DNF)

1986 proved to be a remarkably close season with its two Championship protagonists separated by just one point after sixteen Grands Prix. One, Gerhard Berger, drove a Benetton powered by Formula One's strongest ever BMW engine - an engine so powerful that it had a tendency to rip itself to pieces. The other, Jonathan Palmer, drove a Zakspeed powered by a rickety self-built engine that often saw it being overtaken on the straights.

Remarkably, this made for a compelling Championship narrative that was eventually resolved when Palmer's Zakspeed ran out of fuel on the final with a brace of laps still to go at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, dropping him behind Minardi's Andrea de Cesaris and rendering his deficit impossible to overturn. Had he reached the finish line, it would have been he, not Berger, who would have won the Championship by a single point after his win in Australia.