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The Brits on Pole All-Star League

For the second year running, IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti has beaten out the stars of Formula One to be the most successful UK driver of the season.

Last year he triumphed from Jenson Button, this year it was Lewis Hamilton who ran him closest with Button ending up third ahead of the Formula Two front-runners Dean Stoneman and Jolyon Palmer.

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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.

End of season standings.

Pos DriverStatsPoints
1DarioFranchitti IndyCar SeriesStarts: 17
Wins: 3
Top 8s: 15
Best: 1st
987
2LewisHamilton Formula OneStarts: 19
Wins: 3
Top 8s: 15
Best: 1st
948
3JensonButton Formula OneStarts: 19
Wins: 2
Top 8s: 16
Best: 1st
824
4DeanStoneman Formula TwoStarts: 20
Wins: 6
Top 8s: 14
Best: 1st
774
5JolyonPalmer Formula TwoStarts: 18
Wins: 5
Top 8s: 15
Best: 1st
654
6DuncanTappy Superleague, Auto GPStarts: 22
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 14
Best: 2nd
554
7CraigDolby Superleague FormulaStarts: 24
Wins: 2
Top 8s: 16
Best: 1st
508
8MartinPlowman Indy LightsStarts: 13
Wins: 1
Top 8s: 11
Best: 1st
475
9AlexanderSims F3 Euro, British F3, Auto GPStarts: 28
Wins: 2
Top 8s: 20
Best: 1st
463
10JamesCalado British F3Starts: 29
Wins: 5
Top 8s: 25
Best: 1st
453
11OliWebb British F3Starts: 30
Wins: 3
Top 8s: 24
Best: 1st
396
12WillBratt Formula TwoStarts: 18
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 13
Best: 2nd
370
13OliverTurvey GP2Starts: 20
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 13
Best: 2nd
352
14DanWheldon IndyCar SeriesStarts: 17
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 5
Best: 2nd
308
15SamBird GP2Starts: 19
Wins: 1
Top 8s: 8
Best: 1st
287
16JustinWilson IndyCar SeriesStarts: 16
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 7
Best: 2nd
286
17DanClarke Indy LightsStarts: 12
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 6
Best: 2nd
284
18PippaMann Indy LightsStarts: 12
Wins: 1
Top 8s: 7
Best: 1st
265
19StefanWilson Indy LightsStarts: 11
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 8
Best: 3rd
246
20JackClarke Formula TwoStarts: 17
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 6
Best: 2nd
219
21RupertSvendsen-Cook British F3Starts: 30
Wins: 1
Top 8s: 16
Best: 1st
198
22DeanSmith GP3Starts: 16
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 6
Best: 3rd
174
23DanielMcKenzie British F3Starts: 30
Wins: 2
Top 8s: 15
Best: 1st
171
24JamesJakes GP3, GP2Starts: 14
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 6
Best: 2nd
166
25WilliamBuller British F3Starts: 30
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 11
Best: 2nd
159
26AdrianQuaife-Hobbs GP3, F3 Euro SeriesStarts: 19
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 7
Best: 5th
129
27BenHanley SuperleagueStarts: 8
Wins: 1
Top 8s: 4
Best: 1st
110
28JamesWalker Superleague FormulaStarts: 14
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 6
Best: 4th
105
29JonLancaster Formula Renault 3.5Starts: 17
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 6
Best: 3rd
96
30TomGladdis Formula TwoStarts: 6
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 2
Best: 2nd
79
31AlexLloyd IndyCar SeriesStarts: 17
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 2
Best: 4th
64
32GregMansell Formula Renault 3.5Starts: 17
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 4
Best: 5th
63
33JamesWinslow Indy LightsStarts: 6
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 2
Best: 5th
55
34JayBridger British F3Starts: 30
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 5
Best: 4th
42
35PaulRees Formula TwoStarts: 8
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 3
Best: 7th
33
36MaxChilton GP2Starts: 20
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 2
Best: 5th
30
37HywelLloyd British F3, SuperleagueStarts: 33
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 4
Best: 5th
23
38MikeConway IndyCar SeriesStarts: 6
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 1
Best: 8th
11
39RichardKent Star MazdaStarts: 2
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 1
Best: 8th
6
40OliOakes GP3Starts: 16
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 1
Best: 8th
6
41AlexBrundle British F3Starts: 30
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 1
Best: 8th
3
42DillonBattistini Indy LightsStarts: 2
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 0
Best: 9th
0
43AdamCarroll IndyCar SeriesStarts: 2
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 0
Best: 16th
0
44WayneBoyd British F3Starts: 3
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 0
Best: 13th
0
45JayHoward IndyCar SeriesStarts: 4
Wins: 0
Top 8s: 0
Best: 21st
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

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.

SeriesRacesCo-eff1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8thBand
Formula One190.95957657473828199A
IndyCar Series171.0610685645342322111A
GP2200.90594836302418126B
Indy Lights131.38917355463727189B
Formula Two181.00665340332620137B
Superleague Formula240.75504030252015105B
Auto GP121.509979595040302010B
GP3141.29645139262619136C
Star Mazda151.20604836302418126C
Formula Renault 3.5171.06534232262116115C
British F3 International300.603024181512963C
F3 Euro Series181.00504030252015105C

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