The Brits on Pole All-Star League

McLaren’s second consecutive 1-2 finish has allowed Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button to open up a gap at the top of the All-Star League ahead of last year’s winner Dario Franchitti.

Both have scored points in seven of the eight races this season, with the 11-point gap between them largely accounted for by Button’s seventh place in the season opener.

Points in the All-Star League are awarded for top-eight finishes, and are then modified to reflect length of season and strength of opposition.

June 14th, 2010

Pos		Stats	Points
1	LewisHamilton Formula One	Starts: 8 Wins: 2 Top 8s: 7 Best: 1st	417
2	JensonButton Formula One	Starts: 8 Wins: 2 Top 8s: 7 Best: 1st	408
3	DarioFranchitti IndyCar Series	Starts: 7 Wins: 1 Top 8s: 6 Best: 1st	360
4	JolyonPalmer Formula Two	Starts: 6 Wins: 3 Top 8s: 5 Best: 1st	277
5	DeanStoneman Formula Two	Starts: 6 Wins: 1 Top 8s: 5 Best: 1st	258
6	JustinWilson IndyCar Series	Starts: 7 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 4 Best: 2nd	212
7	OliWebb British F3	Starts: 12 Wins: 2 Top 8s: 10 Best: 1st	210
8	CraigDolby* Superleague Formula	Starts: 6 Wins: 1 Top 8s: 6 Best: 1st	190
9	AlexanderSims F3 Euro Series	Starts: 9 Wins: 2 Top 8s: 7 Best: 1st	180
10	WillBratt Formula Two	Starts: 6 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 5 Best: 3rd	152
11	MartinPlowman Indy Lights	Starts: 4 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 4 Best: 4th	147
12	DuncanTappy* Superleague, Auto GP	Starts: 6 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 4 Best: 3rd	143
13	DanWheldon IndyCar Series	Starts: 7 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 2 Best: 2nd	127
14	JamesCalado British F3	Starts: 12 Wins: 2 Top 8s: 8 Best: 1st	126
15	StefanWilson Indy Lights	Starts: 4 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 3 Best: 3rd	100
16	RupertSvendsen-Cook British F3	Starts: 12 Wins: 1 Top 8s: 5 Best: 1st	72
17	JamesJakes GP3	Starts: 4 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 3 Best: 2nd	70
18	SamBird GP2	Starts: 6 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 2 Best: 3rd	66
19	WilliamBuller British F3	Starts: 12 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 4 Best: 2nd	66
20	DanClarke Indy Lights	Starts: 3 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 2 Best: 4th	64
21	AlexLloyd IndyCar Series	Starts: 7 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 2 Best: 4th	64
22	JonLancaster Formula Renault 3.5	Starts: 7 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 4 Best: 4th	59
23	DeanSmith GP3	Starts: 4 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 2 Best: 4th	58
24	JamesWalker* Superleague Formula	Starts: 6 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 4 Best: 6th	50
25	OliverTurvey GP2	Starts: 6 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 2 Best: 5th	48
26	AdrianQuaife-Hobbs GP3, F3 Euro Series	Starts: 8 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 3 Best: 5th	45
27	DanielMcKenzie British F3	Starts: 12 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 4 Best: 3rd	39
28	JackClarke Formula Two	Starts: 6 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 1 Best: 4th	33
29	PaulRees Formula Two	Starts: 6 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 3 Best: 7th	33
30	JayBridger British F3	Starts: 12 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 3 Best: 4th	27
31	GregMansell Formula Renault 3.5	Starts: 7 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 2 Best: 5th	26
32	JamesWinslow Indy Lights	Starts: 3 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 1 Best: 7th	18
33	HywelLloyd British F3	Starts: 11 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 2 Best: 5th	15
34	MikeConway IndyCar Series	Starts: 6 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 1 Best: 8th	11
35	PippaMann Indy Lights	Starts: 4 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 1 Best: 8th	9
36	RichardKent Star Mazda	Starts: 2 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 1 Best: 8th	6
37	JayHoward IndyCar Series	Starts: 2 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 0 Best: 25th	0
38	TomGladdis Formula Two	Starts: 2 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 0 Best: DNF	0
39	WayneBoyd British F3	Starts: 3 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 0 Best: 13th	0
40	OliOakes GP3	Starts: 4 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 0 Best: 10th	0
41	MaxChilton GP2	Starts: 6 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 0 Best: 9th	0
42	AlexBrundle British F3	Starts: 12 Wins: 0 Top 8s: 0 Best: 9th	0

Photos courtesy of McLaren, British F3, F3 Euro Series, Formula Two, GP2, GP3, Superleague, Renault, the IRL and its photographers, Alexander Sims and Russell Batchelor at xpb.cc who now holds the rights to the old A1GP photo archive.

Notes

* Superleague performances are weighted based on a 24-race season, according to the schedule issued by the series. However, two dates remain provisional – if one or either does not go ahead, scores will be recalculated based on a 20- or 22-race season, and will increase.

This season we’re sticking with the same points system that worked well last year, and which was based on what Formula One did at the time – 10 for a win down to one for eighth. We multiply that by 10 for starters, and then start applying modifiers.

First, we amend it based on number of races in a season. There are 30 this year in British F3 but probably only 12 in Auto GP. Obviously, it’s not fair for both to be worth 100 points for a win.

So we’ve standardised everything as if each series ran 18 races. Championships with fewer earn more points per race, those with more earn less, but a driver who wins every race in their season should end up with about the same whichever series they’re in.

Then we’ve banded the series by strength. Beating the Star Mazda field is not quite the achievement that beating the F1 field is. F1 and IndyCars count for full points. F2, GP2, Superleague and Indy Lights count for two-thirds. Everything else counts half.

So if you’re in IndyCars (17-race season, strong opposition) you get a shed-load of points for finishing in the top eight, while if you’re in British F3 (lots of races, weaker opposition) you get very few.

This table shows the points available in each series, with their number of races, points co-efficient and weighting.

Series	Races	Co-eff	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Band
Formula One	19	0.95	95	76	57	47	38	28	19	9	A
IndyCar Series	17	1.06	106	85	64	53	42	32	21	11	A
GP2	20	0.90	59	48	36	30	24	18	12	6	B
Indy Lights	13	1.38	91	73	55	46	37	27	18	9	B
Formula Two	18	1.00	66	53	40	33	26	20	13	7	B
Superleague Formula	24	0.75	50	40	30	25	20	15	10	5	B
GP3	14	1.29	64	51	39	26	26	19	13	6	C
Star Mazda	15	1.20	60	48	36	30	24	18	12	6	C
Formula Renault 3.5	17	1.06	53	42	32	26	21	16	11	5	C
British F3 International	30	0.60	30	24	18	15	12	9	6	3	C
F3 Euro Series	18	1.00	50	40	30	25	20	15	10	5	C
Auto GP	12	1.50	75	60	45	38	30	23	15	8	C

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6 Responses to “The Brits on Pole All-Star League”

Comments

1

Keith Collantine says:

June 28, 2009 at 5:02 pm

That’s a great idea! I’m not sure I agree with the F1/IRL equivalence, but a cool way to keep track of how they’re all doing.

Does ram home how much Conway is struggling in the IRL, though. Another crash last night. Hope he gets it all together.
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Andy says:

June 28, 2009 at 5:14 pm

I think he’s visibly improving – Iowa was a good race for him, he’s qualifying better, and of course Indy wasn’t too bad once he actually got into the race. Last night’s mistake was a real IRL rookie’s one, not knowing the extent to which one oval might have a couple of safe racing lines and another might be single-track traffic only. That’s the sort of thing he’ll learn, if he lasts long enough.
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David says:

July 15, 2009 at 5:41 pm

Why is Superleague Formula not included in this list? It’s one of the biggest racing formulae and features one of Britain’s best rising stars: Craig Dolby.
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Andy says:

July 15, 2009 at 6:53 pm

Well, like it says in the note at the end we left it out because it’s supposed to be team vs team and last year drivers were swapped in and out of some of the cars quite a bit.

But I was actually talking to Craig and some of the other drivers at a Superleague Formula media event yesterday, and discussed this league and how it works with some of them, and I’m now trying to think about how to integrate them into it.

Superleague Formula is only 12 races, which isn’t a lot, but the same is true of the Atlantics where James Winslow is racing. The main problem is working out how to handicap it – it’s certainly not on a level with F1, but when you have ex-F1 drivers in there it’s none too shabby either. I’ll figure it out.

Oh – and watch out over the next couple of days, we’ve got plenty of Superleague Formula coverage coming up, including photos and an interview with Craig.
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ConcedoNulli says:

August 7, 2009 at 10:23 pm

No A1GP? Adam Carroll (Northern Ireland) would have a shed load of points from that!
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Andy says:

August 7, 2009 at 10:33 pm

He would have done – probably led it – and Danny Watts would have had a few too, but it’s just impossible to fit A1GP in with everything else because it’s at such a different part of the year. Should the season that just finished count for this year? Or should it count for last year and the new season count for this one? Or should it be for 2009 calendar year races only, so the second half of last season and the first half of next season get included? It just can’t be done. Believe me, I tried!

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