STAT WRAP: Turkish GP
Posted: 12 May 2008 09:34 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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The polesitter has won every Turkish Grand Prix ever held, and Felipe Massa kept that run going on Sunday with a dominant performance in Istanbul
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Posted: 12 May 2008 10:41 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Massa’s win saw him break through the 200-point mark in his Ferrari career, an achievement matched only by Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello and Niki Lauda.


I don't think its accurate to compare the points of drivers from different time periods.
For example, Eddie Irvine would fall into the category of 200+ points with 226 during his time at Ferrari if the current point system was used.
In fact, he would have won the 1999 Drivers Championship with today's current point system.

Also Michele Alboreto would have scored 201 Ferrari points under the current 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 system and Clay Regazzoni would have scored 248 during his years with Ferrari and they only held 13 or 14 races per year in Regazzoni's time in the early 70s.

Now lets take Massa's points with Ferrari back down to the old 9-6-4-3-2-1 scale. Leaves him with just 142 points.

Also the 2000 era of Ferrari F1 cars are more reliable than any of the 70s 80s and 90s cars.

I'm not trying to criticize Massa at all. I think he is a great driver and will have another shot or two at a Championship before his career is over.

However ranking him higher in career points over other legendary Ferrari drivers is not accurate at all.
The "career points" stat is highly flawed when comparing drivers from different time periods.
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