Wow really surprised at many peoples negative views on this one.
I presume you all find the F1 manufacturers championship irrelevant to the sport with no useful information to be gained as well then??
Does it not give relevant gauge of a given cars performance
despite the cars running with
different engines, aero packages, kers equipment and guess what they also run on different tracks/track surfaces with drivers and at various points they have ran with multiple tyre manufacturers as well as compounds and tred patterns. Even more so than in RC the cars would appear to all be virtually identical as stipulated by the extremely strict regulations, but some how they all perform differently over a year and the gauge of this is the manufacturers championship. Yes there are always other variables such as
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multiple surfaces, cars, setups, electrics, driving styles, experience levels, wind speeds, barometric pressures, mood swings, alcohol levels, nicotine levels, proximity to most recent argument with spouse, moon phase, number of new racers, number of cars in the heat, time of day, temperature, track layout, whether that driver is simply having a bad day etc etc etc ad infinitum, post nauseum...
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But I feel that this does not mean that the results are of no value (you tell that to Mclaren, Mercedes or Ferrari or any of the more minor teams). And the results them selves are certainly not really to complicated to work out?? Yes there are many different conclusions that can be drawn from the information gained depending on what you want to look at and yes people can argue and debate the why and where for's but at the end of the day the results them selves do not lie. I think we can all saftely agree that the red bull is the fastest f1 car at the moment due to it RESULTS. If it didn't have the results we wouldn't. Is it really that difficult for you to relate the information I am trying to gather in the same way......
The variables involved are absolutely no different to RC racing so why would the information be any less relevant?
Yes one car in F1 car will suite a certain style of track better than another and may prefer one set of tyres to another etc etc
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but as the styles of tracks and variables even out over a season the information both becomes relevant as a whole and at the individual tracks. We can say for an "Example" that the Mercedes cars were better on low friction surfaces with corner loads that produce less rear tyre wear, we could say that the Lotus prefered the harder compound tyre and rougher higher tyre wear tracks, the Mclearens cars were terrible on bumpy / rutted tracks as the car was to stiff. Need I go on really.