Monza's Champion Curse

[teabagyokel]

Sounds fine to me!

 

[Brogan]

Here you go.
A couple of tables which might be useful.

The first table is wins per season for each WDC, broken down to each decade.

The second table is a condensed version of the first table with overall totals and averages per season.

I'm sure most of you are already aware but a few years worth noting are:

• 1952 - Alberto Ascari - 6 wins from 8 races, 75.0%
  1954 - Juan Manuel Fangio - 6 wins from 9 races, 66.7%
  1958 - Mike Hawthorn - 1 win from 11 races, 9.1%
  1959 - Jack Brabham - 2 wins from 9 races, 22.2%
  1961 - Phil Hill - 2 wins from 8 races, 25.0%
  1963 - Jim Clark - 7 wins from 10 races, 70.0%
  1964 - John Surtees - 2 wins from 10 races, 20.0%
  1967 - Denny Hulme - 2 wins from 11 races, 18.2%
  1982 - Keke Rosberg - 1 win from 16 races, 6.3%
  2002 - Michael Schumacher - 11 wins from 17 races, 64.7%
  2004 - Michael Schumacher - 13 wins from 18 races, 72.2%

With regards to Monza, these are all the drivers who have won at Monza in their championship winning years:

• 1950 Nino Farina
  1952 Alberto Ascari
  1954 Juan Manuel Fangio
  1955 Juan Manuel Fangio
  1961 Phil Hill
  1962 Graham Hill
  1963 Jim Clark
  1964 John Surtees
  1969 Jackie Stewart
  1972 Emerson Fittipaldi
  1979 Jody Scheckter
  1983 Nelson Piquet
  1984 Niki Lauda
  1985 Alain Prost
  1987 Nelson Piquet
  1989 Alain Prost
  1990 Ayrton Senna
  2000 Michael Schumacher
  2003 Michael Schumacher

WDC Wins 1950 -1959

WDC Wins 1960 -1969

WDC Wins 1970 -1979

WDC Wins 1980 -1989

WDC Wins 1990 -1999

WDC Wins 2000 -2009

WDC Wins 1950 -2009

 

[Muddytalker]

Its starting to become apparent that most champions don't win many races in the late-mid-season. Which I feel is very strange indeed.

Raikkonen apart, it has to be a case of going conservative (both in set ups and in driving) to defend a lead, I would have thought. No matter what the drivers and teams say about 'still going for it', there's more pressure in defending a lead (especially one that is shortening race by race) than chasing when you effectively have nothing to lose.

 

[teabagyokel]

More graphs on this pointless statistics post!

Here is the Champions' progression since 1994.



The colours actually represent the positions in this occassion!

 

[Speshal]

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

That looks to me like a depiction by Mondrian of the Himalayas.

 

[ATL11]

Love the fact that 1982 and Keke Rosberg is the lowest % of wins and still picked up the championship! I wonder if this is the resentment that Bernie has (Williams vrs Braham) had all those years in him insisting on having the medal championship?

He'd have been buggered that year as well as Pironi, Watson, Prost, Lauda & Arnoux all had 2 race wins in 82.

 

[Wombcat]

Its starting to become apparent that most champions don't win many races in the late-mid-season. Which I feel is very strange indeed.

Maybe it's not so strange. Maybe by then they focus more on getting to the finish with a good amount of points instead of winning the race. Which may lead to a slightly different setup.