Ferrim wrote:An interesting thing...
I've been revisiting the 1991 season results and I've found out that Andrea de Cesaris finished 4th at Mexico, one lap down, but he's listed as having retired, because his car stopped on the last lap. The rest of the field was lapped and therefore he kept his 4th place.
Now, that race was won by Patrese, followed by Mansell and Senna. Now that all of the three have been crowned champions in this parallel reality, De Cesaris would win this race... but he NEVER crossed the line, so he can't win it! If he had been running in the lead and stopped in the last lap, everyone running on the same lap as Roberto Moreno (who finished 5th) would have got past De Cesaris. Therefore the order should be Moreno-Bernard-Morbidelli-De Cesaris, as listed
here.
Is this thing being taken into account in the standings?
No. It's similar situation when driver has a collision with a driver who is not part of the race. See Hungary 1990 for example and what happened to Alessandro Nannini.
Also, we can't say that Moreno's car would have lasted 67th lap.
So here we go:
1991Jean Alesi 70 (7 wins)
Andrea de Cesaris 42 (1 win, 4 2nd, 2 3rd*)
Roberto Moreno 34 (1 win, 3 2nd)
Stefano Modena 33 (2 wins, 2 2nd)
Bertrand Gachot 22 (1 win, 2 3rd)
Pierluigi Martini 22 (2 2nd)
Michael Schumacher 20 (1 win, 1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Gianni Morbidelli 17 (1 win*, 1 3rd)
Emanuele Pirro 17 (1 2nd*, 1 3rd)
Mauricio Gugelmin 15 (3 3rd)
Thierry Boutsen 14 (2 4th)
JJ Lehto 13 (1 win, 1 4th)
Martin Brundle 13 (1 win, 1 5th)
Satoru Nakajima 10 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Ivan Capelli 10 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Mika Häkkinen 8 (1 3rd)
Mark Blundell 7 (1 2nd)
Johnny Herbert 6,5 (1 3rd)
Eric Bernard 5 (1 3rd)
Erik Comas 5 (1 5th)
Aguri Suzuki 4 (1 3rd)
Alessandro Zanardi 3,5 (1 4th*)
Nicola Larini 3 (1 4th)
Julian Bailey 3 (1 4th)
Gabriele Tarquini 3 (1 5th)
Alex Caffi 2 (1 5th)
Olivier Grouillard 1 (1 6th)
So it's Alesi who takes lots of wins, while no one else manages more than two. Tarquini scored two points for AGS and one for Fondmetal. Grouillard's point was for Fondmetal. Moreno scored only for Benetton.