If there was a constructors title in V8's...

[Dasher39]

This is how it would look. Obviously its hard, with one team having 3 cars and some teams having one car. But I have dones the maths and come up with the 2003 V8 Supercar Constructors Championship (please note only the larger teams listed, and it is listed in the Championship order)

AFTER the completion of the NZ Round (Using the UN-adjusted points system)

Stone Brothers Racing - 3780 pts (Ambrose and Ingall)
K-Mart Racing - 3619 pts (Murphy and Rick Kelly)
Holden Racing Team - 3397 pts (Skaife and Todd Kelly)
Team Brock - 2998 pts (Bright and Weel)
Ford Performance Racing* - 2849 pts (Lowndes and Seton)
OzEmail Racing - 2404 pts (Bowe and Jones)
Team Betta Electrical - 2376 pts (Radisich and Canto)
Castrol Perkins Racing - 2359 pts (S.Richards and Dumbrell)
D. Johnson Racing - 2299 pts (Johnson and Wilson)
Garry Rogers Motorsport - 2181 pts (Tander and Whincup)
Orrcon Racing - 2100 pts (Bargwanna and Larkham)
Team Dynamik - 1842 pts (J.Richards and Wills)
SuperCheap Auto Racing** - 1491 (Ellery and Youlden)

*FPR have 3 cars, so I have taken their 2 highest scoring drivers as their total. If you include the 3rd car of David Besnard their tally becomes 3827 and they would be first.

**As SuperCheap Auto only have the one entry in the Championship, I have also included the points tally of Luke Youlden to make it a little fairer. Obviously this shows how having one car hinders your performance.


So there we have it, if there was a constructors title Stone Bros. Racing would all but have it sewn up by now with a 161 point lead over K-Mart Racing. I think that shows how much the championship has changed this year with HRT down in 3rd place.

Also, for the drivers championship, with the un-adjusted points score Ambrose leads Murphy by just 6 points. Obviously with the adjusted points score (who' stupid idea was it to drop your worst round ) Murph now trails by 24 points. Sure make it a lot interesting if it was only the 6 points. It also raises the point of...

WHAT IF Murphy manages to outscore Ambrose by 8 points at Eastern Creek and on UN-adjusted points is the winner by 2 points, but with the adjusted points tally Ambrose wins by 16 points. Now seriously, isnt that just a stupid sitaution. We would have the driver who scores the most points during the WHOLE season LOSE the Championship because of a stupid rule that was brought in. If this happened I am almost certain you would see this ludicrous rule scrapped for 2004.

 

[Dasher39]

I have gone one step further and tallied the Manufacturer Points Tally which look like...

Holden - 19 142
Ford - 19 056

Now I am not sure what the Ford:Holden ratio is, whether there are more Holden than Fords or vice vercer, but it is very close, with only 86 points covering it after 12 rounds. The blokes at AVESCO must have big smiles on there faces.

This includes all drivers from the championship (not co-drivers from the Enduros). Extra drivers added from above post are:-

Lansvale Smash Repairs Racing - 1047 (Cam McConville)
Sirromet Wines Racing - 930 pts (Paul Morris)
Mark Noske Racing - 797pts (Mark Noske)
Team Kiwi - 769pts (Craig Baird)
Toll Ipec Racing - 612 pts (Anthony Tratt)
Thexton Racing - 348 pts (David Thexton)

Please Note* I have NOT taken into account the points score from 00 Motorsport, only because they have not made the whole season. If I did take that into account, then add say another 300-odd points to Fords tally.

 

[ViperV10]

Originally posted by Dasher39
WHAT IF Murphy manages to outscore Ambrose by 8 points at Eastern Creek and on UN-adjusted points is the winner by 2 points, but with the adjusted points tally Ambrose wins by 16 points. Now seriously, isnt that just a stupid sitaution. We would have the driver who scores the most points during the WHOLE season LOSE the Championship because of a stupid rule that was brought in. If this happened I am almost certain you would see this ludicrous rule scrapped for 2004.

One stat I still haven't seen is who would be leading if the scoring system was the same as last year. I would be thinking Ambrose would be leading, but I'm not sure if he would be...or if one of the others would have him beat.

I for one don't mind them dropping their worst round, but I don't particularly like the close nature of the points, Ambrose has clearly been the best driver the whole year and I think he would be whipping some serious butt if the winner got more of an advantage from winning.

 

[stmookeyj]

Originally posted by Dasher39
I have gone one step further and tallied the Manufacturer Points Tally which look like...

Holden - 19 142
Ford - 19 056

Now I am not sure what the Ford:Holden ratio is, whether there are more Holden than Fords or vice vercer, but it is very close, with only 86 points covering it after 12 rounds. The blokes at AVESCO must have big smiles on there faces.

Holden: HRT (2), Lansvale (1), Perkins (2), GRM (2), Dynamik (2), K-Mart (2), KWR Team Brock (2), TKR (1), Romano (1), Morris (1), HYL (1, enduro), Smiths Trucks (2, enduro), Miller (1, enduro)
TOTAL: 20

Ford: SBR (2), FPR (3), DJR (2), Orrcon (2), BJR (2), Noske (1), SER (1), 888 (2), Toll (1), Speedy (1), 00 (2 until Darwin), Gulf Western (1, enduro), Fernandez (1, enduro)
TOTAL: 21

Totals are for throughout the season as I'm sure the totals would include all cars scores from all races.

Ford would romp the Konica scores though.

 

[TheMase]

Originally posted by stmookeyj


Ford would romp the Konica scores though.

Because they are closer to standard road cars, and closer to how the cars would really run.

The Ford engine is still the same engine they have been running for years. The Fords are not allowed to run their new BA engine, as it is twin overhead cam, and would present an 'unfair' advantage.

What happened to rewarding advances in the technology of the cars?