2019 Russian Grand Prix championship points

22 comments on “2019 Russian Grand Prix championship points”

1. 

   Chaitanya
   29th September 2019, 13:52

   Mclaren have opened up the gap to Renault once again.
2. 

   DAllein (@)
   29th September 2019, 13:58

   Crucially (for someone in positive light, for someone not so much) Lewis now has 107 points over Charles.
   Mercedes – mammoth 162 over Ferrari.

   With only 130 available for Drivers.
   And 220 for Teams.

   With 5 races to go.

   P.S. Sorry for rubbing salt into the wounds. Just stating the onbvious
   1. 

      DAllein (@)
      29th September 2019, 14:02

      LOL, Sky just told the same stats))
      Are they reading my posts?)))))
   2. 

      LB (@burden93)
      29th September 2019, 14:05

      Think I’m right in saying that at the next race, it can be confirmed that a Mercedes driver will be WDC?
      1. 

         pete
         29th September 2019, 14:19

         Only if Hamiton wins it. Anything else and there would still be a theoretical chance for Leclerc to sneak it by winning every race and taking fastest lap while Hamilton and Bottas DNF.

         Pretty unlikely but you can’t confirm until you have mathematical certainty
      2. 

         OOliver
         29th September 2019, 14:33

         Not if Leclerc wins.
      3. 

         Ivan Vinitskyy (@ivan-vinitskyy)
         29th September 2019, 14:38

         Even if Ham stops now, I’m not sure Lec will win them all and Bot surely won’t. They’ll spit the points and Ham wins driver’s championship anyway.
      4. 

         DAllein (@)
         29th September 2019, 16:03

         For WDC it might be too early.
         WCC looks hugely more likely.
3. 

   Pironi the Provocateur (@pironitheprovocateur)
   29th September 2019, 14:32

   Hamilton now needs only to slightly extend his leed at Suzuka and finnish in front of Bottas later in Mexico. And that should be it. For the third time in a row in Mexico City, that kind of makes it a symbol of this era.

   Btw, Di Resta is a mega (insert random swearword here) for his statement that race was Leclerc´s to win and Vettel ruined Ferrari´s race when he pulled over. Vettel proved his haters today that he´s still got it and reminded me of his best day at Red Bull before the pitstop, shame that he was so unlucky. Fair play to Ferrari that they wanted to return the favour to Leclerc after Singapore (though they made their life harder and more complicated), there is no one to blame, but Leclerc should learn to think about bigger picture and stop complaining about every minor thing that happens in the race. Vettel got him on merit after the start and it´s absolutely childish to blame it on slipstream or any kind of agreement. It was pure racing.
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   Pironi the Provocateur (@pironitheprovocateur)
   29th September 2019, 14:33

   Hamilton now needs only to slightly extend his leed at Suzuka and finnish in front of Bottas later in Mexico. And that should be it. For the third time in a row in Mexico City, that kind of makes it a symbol of this era.

   Btw, Di Resta is a mega (insert random word here) for his statement that race was Leclerc´s to win and Vettel ruined Ferrari´s race when he pulled over. Vettel proved his haters today that he´s still got it and reminded me of his best day at Red Bull before the pitstop, shame that he was so unlucky. Fair play to Ferrari that they wanted to return the favour to Leclerc after Singapore (though they made their life harder and more complicated), there is no one to blame, but Leclerc should learn to think about bigger picture and stop complaining about every minor thing that happens in the race. Vettel got him on merit after the start and it´s absolutely ridiculous to blame it on slipstream or any kind of agreement. It was pure racing.
5. 

   Kyle (@hammerheadgb)
   29th September 2019, 16:24

   In the Drivers’ Championship, there’s a maximum of 26 points per race available.
   Hamilton would therefore need to be 104 points clear by the end of the Japanese GP to seal the championship there (as his 9 wins are unbeatable on countback).

   Hamilton 322 + potential 26 = 348, if Bottas remains on 249 he will be 99 behind, so Hamilton cannot secure the championship in Japan.

   However, Mercedes can know one of their drivers will eventually win the Drivers title if they have that 104 point gap to their nearest non-Mercedes competitor, which means that if in Japan:
   Leclerc fails to outscore Hamilton by at least 4 points, and
   Verstappen fails to outscore Hamilton by at least 7 points, and
   Vettel fails to outscore Hamilton by at least 25 points…
   Then a Silver Arrows WDC is confirmed.

   In the Constructors’, 44 points per race are available. Therefore the required lead post Japan is 176 points (again unassailable on countback).

   Currently the lead over Ferrari is 162 points, which means Mercedes need to outscore Ferrari by 14 points to seal the WCC in Japan. This swing would be guaranteed by any Mercedes 1-2 (although numerous other permutations are possible).
6. 

   MEGATRON M12 (@megatron)
   29th September 2019, 17:44

   Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton who clinches the REAL championship with 9 wins this season guaranteed to have the most this year, nobody else has more than two.

   The driver with the most wins is ALWAYS my real champion.
   1. 

      isaac (@invincibleisaac)
      29th September 2019, 21:58

      That’s a fair view. I would love to know your thoughts on Massa having the most wins in 2008 and Hamilton having the most wins in 2016 then – were they your moral champions for those years? :)
      1. 

         slowmo (@slowmo)
         29th September 2019, 22:45

         Is that with Hamilton having his Spa win removed and another half dozen joke penalties that year.
      2. 

         MEGATRON M12 (@megatron)
         30th September 2019, 1:42

         Fia wrongly took spa 2008 from HAM and gave it MAS, who never led a lap.

         HAM better driver in 2008 and 2016. HAM 7x Driver champ in my book, 08 & ’14 thru ’19. He was the best driver in 07 as well but McLaren cocked up in China handing the win to Kimi.
      3. 

         MEGATRON M12 (@megatron)
         30th September 2019, 1:44

         @invincibleisaac
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            isaac (@invincibleisaac)
            30th September 2019, 9:32

            @megatron – Just think, had things gone slightly differently in 2016 he would be on his way to a 6th world title in a row! Of course this is all “if’s” and “buts”, but had McLaren pitted Hamilton earlier in China he would have likely scored enough to the win the championship. In 2010 you could say that the tyre failure in Barcelona (which cost him 18 points) cost him the championship, and poor pitstops and poor reliability cost him a shot in 2012, and then there was 2016. I think Vettel most deserved the 2010 title, but had things gone a bit differently in the years I mentioned above, Hamilton could be on course for his 10th championship which would be insane.
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               MEGATRON M12 (@megatron)
               30th September 2019, 11:43

               Vettel made way more mistakes than HAM in 2010, crashing into WEB in Turkey and BUT in Spa, but the RBR was just too fast, 5 wins, but ALO also had 5, so he was probably the real champ that year.
7. 

   OOliver
   29th September 2019, 18:19

   @MEGATRON
   I quite agree with the most wins champion.
   Although in recent times the FIA/Stewards have so altered the possibility of drivers to simply race with penalties such that they have distorted this statistic.
   1. 

      MEGATRON M12 (@megatron)
      30th September 2019, 1:45

      Referring to engine penalties?
8. 

   Racecar is racecar backwards
   30th September 2019, 4:33

   9th – 14th separated by 4 points. Any one of them could finish in top ten.
9. 

   MEGATRON M12 (@megatron)
   30th September 2019, 11:41

   Vettel made way more mistakes than HAM in 2010, crashing into WEB in Turkey, in BUT in Spa.

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