Based on Wins and points scored under the points system at the time ( not standardised to the 10-8-6 etc points of today ) the below list is the list of things that would have been different had the more wins rule been introduced in 1980. As you can see, not an awful lot of difference, most cases seems a better result to me ( as a Mansell fan!! )




2008 - Felipe Massa instead of Lewis Hamilton by one win.


1989 - Ayrton Senna instead of Alain Prost by two wins.

1987 - Nigel Mansell instead of Nelson Piquet by three wins.

1986 - Nigel Mansell instead of Alain Prost by one win.

1984 - Alain Prost instead of Niki Lauda by two wins.

1983 - Alain Prost instead of Nelson Piquet by one win.

1982 - Keke Rosberg would've lost. Didier Pironi, John Watson, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda and René Arnoux all have two wins to Keke's one. Pironi and Watson each on 39 points, each have two second places, Pironi wins with two third place finishes to Watson's one.

1981 - Nelson Piquet and Alain Prost tied on three wins each. Piquet wins on points 50 to Prost's 43. Prost finished 5th in '81 while Piquet won the title.




So what do we think now then?