In The Stats Or The Stars?

[The Artist.....]

Jenson bucked the trend by being the first English, British driver to win an odd year, which is a privilage usually reserved for Scotsmen.

Although, since JB's mother was South African born, we can claim that Button is merely an outlier, and if we use the South African heritage, then it fits the pattern: the only other South African champion (Jody Scheckter) of course won in 1979..... (Nothing like trying to shape stats to fit a pattern.....)

 

[RasputinLives]

You can prove anything with Stats and 56% of all people know that

 

[teabagyokel]

Of course, Australians can cheer when the year ends in 0. Championships for Brabham and Jones in '60 and '80, Webber's best career year was in '10 and Brabham had his best year in a Brabham-DFV in '70.

 

[teabagyokel]

Some stats on how many races won before Championship year that might interest the non-Champions, from my own post:

 0 - Farina, Brabham, G. Hill, Hulme, K. Rosberg

 1 - P. Hill, Surtees, Rindt, Fittipaldi, Hunt, Hakkinen, Alonso, Button

 2 - Ascari, Hawthorn, Lauda, Schumacher

 3 - Fangio, Clark, Piquet

 4 - Villeneuve, Hamilton

 5 - Stewart, Jones, Vettel

 6 - Andretti, Senna

 7 - Scheckter

 9 - Raikkonen

13 - D. Hill

16 - Prost

21 - Mansell

Now the race winners in the field this year (at Nov 2011) were:

11 - Massa

 7 - Webber

 1 - Kovalainen

... and everyone else on nought. So for a new race winner to take an inaugral championship this year would be for only the second time since the sixties. However, would Maldonado or Rosberg be encouraged by their chances for 2013?

 

[Wombcat]

If you put all these kind of stats together, you'll likely find that by now the chances of getting a worldchampion this year are very slim. Does this mean that during the year F1 will disintegrate?

 

[teabagyokel]

Wombcat - Only if Massa wins!