2023 Dutch Grand Prix race result and championship points

4 comments on “2023 Dutch Grand Prix race result and championship points”

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   elchinero (@elchinero)
   27th August 2023, 16:54

   Six (6)! Wow …
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      melanos
      27th August 2023, 17:00

      Is that 6 GPs ahead in the points? Close but not quite
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      melanos
      27th August 2023, 19:11

      With 9 GPs including 3 with spring races (Losail COTA & Interlagos I believe) there are 26×9 + 8×3 points left, that is 258 points.

      It is unrealistic that anybody but Max can win this championship, but both Ferrari drivers, both Mercedes drivers, Fernando Alonso and Checo Perez are still mathematically in contention.

      in the best case scenario for Max: Sainz. Leclerc and Russell may be out of contention next weekend in Monza, Alonso and Hamilton in Marina Bay, but Checo cannot be ruled out before Suzuka, with still 6 races to go. This is of course very unlikely: not only Max needs to be near perfect, but also the rest of the contenders, specially Checo, need to be very poor. But unless Checo really starts to perform. it is highly likely that the title will be decided in Losail or COTA, with 4-5 races to go.

      Other way to look at it. Let’s suppose that Checo makes a perfect rest of the season, winning all the races sprints and flaps (that is, all 258 points left). Meanwhile Max does not get one more single podium, finishing 4th all the times, that’s 9*12 + 3*5 = 123 points. That is a 135 points advantage for Checo, still 3 points short of the present 138 points advantage for Max. Max can still give up 3 more points (say, by finishing 5th in a race and a sprint) this would result in a tie but on countback he still has one more win.
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   Todfod (@todfod)
   28th August 2023, 5:25

   I’m loving this Alpine battle with Gasly now ahead of Ocon. The expression on Esteban’s face must be priceless right now..

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