It is unlikely that any other driver will dominate the sports of Formula 1 racing as much as Michael Schumacher did. Not only did he win the highly technical event seven times, but he also retains the record for the highest number of wins for individual races. One of the more subtle indices of his dominance is the fact that the scoring system was revised by the sport's administrators ostensibly to add to the competition. While I have remained skeptical of these revisions that are often sold to the public as instruments to for creating more exciting competition, I have never got to compare them against one another to determine whether they do make a difference.
Michael Wallace has gone a step ahead and written a piece in Significance Magazine here in which he compares the performance of the top five drivers of 2010 against the scoring systems used in this and previous seasons. His findings show that despite the manipulation of the scoring systems, it is clear that the result would not have changed significantly. To my mind, this shows that sometimes even the people who run sports simply go for change for change's sake. Having said that, the results would probably have been different for the 2008 season during which Felipe Massa came so close to winning the championship but lost to Lewis Hamilton. the results would have been different considering that Massa had won more races than Hamilton who had been more consistently placed as a podium finisher.
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