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Originally Posted by 450SEL6.9  Part of the reason no one can run away is the ridiculous points system that rewards 8 pts for finishing second! The object is to win races. If there is only a 2-pt. spread between 1st and 2nd, just play it safe and race for the second step. |
But in its early and most glorious old days Formula 1 also had a 2 points difference system, namely 8,6,4,3,2,1.
That's part of the reason S. Moss never won despite being a constant runner up, since Fangio, then Hawthorne and Brabham took the points/podiums if they couldn't win.
After the 8,6,4 system camed the 9,6,4 and then 10,6,4. Also before WWII, witch some see as the golden age of GP racing, the points system was 1,2,3,4 he who had less points won, and the diference between 1th and 2nd was of just 1 point, the smallest ever.
None the less, by all this point systems, Alonso and Kimi would be tied, but Massa, Hamilton and Heidfeld would be (further) behind.