pokerman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:26 pm
mikeyg123 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:00 pm
pokerman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:15 pm
myattitude wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:00 pm
pokerman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:36 pm
Schumacher could have been leading the title race after 7 races, I think you need to run that past me.
Unreliability in 2012. Had he collected the points in the positions he retired in, he'd have been leading the 2012 WDC by the time they arrived Canada.
I know he had unreliability but you still need to run that past me, retiring from a couple of third places doesn't quite do it for me, he was never close to winning a race which you kind of need to do to be leading a title race. In the first 7 races he crashed out of one of them which was his own fault and he got penalised with a grid penalty at Monaco which otherwise he would have been on for winning before retiring, but what happed is that he retired from about 6th place, the numbers don't add up.
Just of them was his own fault. That cost him the win. Certainly without that he would have be leading the WDC.
How, where's the evidence?
I've done some maths and think I worked it out.
After six rounds (Monaco), if you take the position that Schumacher was in when he retired and give him the win in Monaco his results would have been:
Australia 3rd, Malaysia 10th (finished), China 2nd, Bahrain 10th (finished), Spain 6th, Monaco 1st = 68 points. Adjusting the results of the others near the top of the championship at that point I work out the following:
Alonso 70
Schumacher 68
Vettel 67
Webber 64
Rosberg 54
Hamilton 53
This of course adjusts for Schumacher not crashing with Senna in Spain and therefore winning in Monaco. The clash in Spain was seen as his fault so he wouldn't have been top of the championship just due to bad luck.
After the seventh round (Canada) where Schumacher was running out of the points before his DRS failed he'd have been below Alonso, Vettel, Webber and Hamilton.
That's, I think, the maths but by my working Schumacher wouldn't have been leading the championship if not for bad luck.