The Motorsport Thread 2015

Wow, Dixon. Thats actually a surprise and a shame for JPM as he led the championship all the way until the last race.

Yeah I really dont like the double points things. I mean....can't say JPM blew it really, 6th place is a good finish. And looking at the overall year, while Dixon was great and pulled it out when needed, I do think Montoya had the better actual year. 

Edited by JJLehto - August 31 2015 at 11:26

I guess if you take the double points away for Sonoma and Indy, Dixon still would've won the title, although I'm actually okay with double points for Indy because it's 500 miles and it's, you know, Indy.  Oh well, maybe JPM is just doing his best Will Power impression and maybe next year he'll get the title.

I was beaten to it ^ but yeah without them I do believe JPM would've had it. 

Edited by JJLehto - August 31 2015 at 20:18

JJLehto wrote: I was beaten to it ^ but yeah without them I do believe JPM would've had it.  Call me conservative  but even for Indy I feel it's wrong. I mean there's no extra for the the Daytona 500, Monaco. Just seems unfair to me to have one, or a few, race(s) mean so much compared to the overall. Like a whole year of work could end up for naught thanks to a race or two, but not in the typical way like a close title being lost on a bad race...but that simply they have special rules. For LeMans I accept it since that's such an extreme race, but I just don't like the idea otherwise.  Least Dixon is well deserving. His 4th title ties him with Dario, and also with Bourdais and Andretti if you include all the lineages...making Dixon one of the greatest drivers in North American open wheel history!

Be glad it's not the old USAC scoring system where it was points per mile and races could be as short as 100 miles (half the current size for your average street/road race). Some of those 70's championships could have very weird results with the guy winning the most races being nowhere when a guy doing only the 500 miles ends up on top.

The top one is still Tom Sneva winning a USAC title in the 70's without actually winning a race due to the aformentionted points per mile system.

NASCAR has ruined their championship system and the way it is now, makes the original Chase system look brilliant.  Just stick to the "whoever scores the most points wins the championship" system, and every race scores the same amount of points, except for maybe the biggest race of the year (Daytona, Indy, etc.).  It works every time and no one can really complain about it. 

Missed the race but managed to avoid any spoilers and about to catch the replay. 

Edited by JJLehto - September 06 2015 at 13:37

I think thats job done as far as the title goes for Hamilton, 2 wins and change in the title race with 7 races left would take some monumental bad luck for Rosberg to beat him.

EDIT: But the biggest news of the day seems to be that Red Bull are almost certianly not going to use Renault engines next year, we'll have to see whether they end up with Mercedes or Ferrari and Torro Rosso will follow suite in dropping Renault.

Renault have agreed terms to buy back the Lotus team as well but deal needs to go before the board first, where they'll either decide to buy out the team or pull out of F1 altogether.


Edited by sleeper - September 06 2015 at 20:21

Funny you mention Monza staying...I had no idea about this since I dont follow this type of news, but the commentators were saying Bernie is playing some poker with Monza? Something how the track has always gotten very generous deals, and he was implying Monza starts to pay up or maybe lose their place?