From mjackson@wc.eso.mc.xerox.com Tue Oct 3 17:01:35 1995 Received: from viper.wc.eso.mc.xerox.com ([13.1.159.1]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14988(6)>; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 09:00:51 PDT Received: from yngvi.eso.mc.xerox.com (yngvi.wc.eso.mc.xerox.com) by viper.wc.eso.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15571; Tue, 3 Oct 95 12:00:41 EDT Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 09:00:41 PDT From: mjackson@wc.eso.mc.xerox.com (Mark Jackson) Message-Id: <9510031600.AA15571@viper.wc.eso.mc.xerox.com> To: rps@mat.uc.pt Subject: Re: Info on points rules Cc: mjackson@wc.eso.mc.xerox.com, mjackson.wbst147@xerox.com Reply-To: mjackson.wbst147@xerox.com Status: OR Information from /Grand Prix/ (Griffiths): Scoring for the World Championship of Drivers 1950-57: 8-6-4-3-2 for 1st through 5th 1 for fastest lap except at Indianapolis shared points for shared drives best results from half the season's total events including Indianapolis, rounded up (except 1953: 4 of 9; 1956, 57: 5 of 8) 1958-59: 8-6-4-3-2 for 1st through 5th 1 for fastest lap except at Indianapolis best results from half the season's total events including Indianapolis, rounded up 1960: 8-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th best results from 6 of 9 events including Indianapolis 1961-66: 9-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th best results from half the season's total events, rounded up 1967-78: 9-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th best results from all but one event from each half of the season; first "half" the longer if an odd number of events 1979: 9-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th best results from four events from each half-season 1980: 9-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th best results from five events from each half-season 1981-90: 9-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th best results from eleven events Adam Gordon added: > Actually, it was not eleven but half the number of races + 3. > For 16 races: 16/2 + 3 = 11. > I don't know if there was a season with more/less than 16 races. 1991- : 10-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th in all events Constructors Championship 1958-59: 8-6-4-3-2 for 1st through 5th; best-placed car only best results from half the season's total events, rounded up 1960: 8-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th; best-placed car only best results from 6 of 9 events including Indianapolis 1961-66: 9-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th; best-placed car only best results from half the season's total events, rounded up 1967-78: 9-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th; best-placed car only best results from all but one event from each half of the season; first "half" the longer if an odd number of events 1979-90: 9-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th; all cars, all events 1991- : 10-6-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 6th; all cars, all events (Note that of late no more than two cars of a type can be entered to compete for points, or at all) -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson If the average kid has witnessed 100,000 acts of violence by the age of 12, how many examples of glib hypocrisy and self-serving deceit do you suppose they've seen? Enough to get "Larry King Live" banned for all eternity is my guess. - Will Durst