F1 will be able to add in one year the same as in 14 seasons

Formula 1 has been in constant evolution since its inception in May 1950, when getting into a single-seater could be the last thing done while alive. Seven decades later, safety has become a priority, which has sometimes led to bizarre scenarios, such as the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix.

In that race, the FIA was delaying the start by chapters until, after four hours, it decided to end the test with just two laps behind the safety car, distributing half the points to the drivers.

For this reason, the category rethought the scoring system for the future, marking a minimum of real competition laps. That new rule was added to the update of the sprint races, introduced in 2021, where points were distributed to the first three, but which has now been increased to eight.

Thanks to the three sessions of this type and the 23 Grand Prix, a record calendar in the 73 seasons, with their respective fastest laps, it will be possible to add a total of 622 points , something unthinkable in the past.

At the birth of the Great Circus, only the top five got points, in the order of 8-6-4-3-2, with an extra point for the fastest lap, although it was not uncommon to see two competitors sharing the spoils because they had raced with the same car.

This was the case for the first time in the Indianapolis 500, with Joie Chitwood and Tony Bettenhausen , driving the #17 Kurtis Kraft for 82 and 54 laps respectively, to finish fifth and take a point each.

With this scoring system, you would have to win and set the fastest lap in 70 grands prix to beat what would be achieved in a current season. Thus, it would not have been until the 1958 French Grand Prix that anyone could break the record, although back then, during the 1950-1953 period, only the top four results were taken into account, and from 1954 onwards, until 1957, the top five, so this number would increase exponentially.

The rules changed throughout the courses, with different scoring systems, although it was never possible to earn more than nine points per race or 54 per year. Therefore, applying the scoring systems from the beginning of Formula 1, no driver could have won as many points as today until the 1964 Dutch Grand Prix , that is, 14 years after the creation of the Grand Circus. .

That race would be the 123rd in the entire history of the category, although no one came close to 622 points in total. Until that grand prix, Juan Manuel Fangio was the driver who had scored the most points, 277.64 in total, which translates into 5.44 per event.

The Argentine, up to that date, achieved all his victories, 24, with an effectiveness of 47.06%, and maintained that record of being the one who scored the most points since his retirement in the 1958 French GP until the Spanish GP in 1970 , when he was surpassed by Graham Hill .

It was another time in Formula 1, and with the change to 25 points per victory from the 2010 season, the list has undergone a radical change, with Lewis Hamilton having scored the most points in all of history, a cumulative 4,165 .5 until the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP.

The Briton, therefore, has achieved 14.46 points per race, and is followed by Sebastian Vettel with 3,061 (10.97/race) and by Fernando Alonso, who has added 1,980 to date (5.93/race).

Far is Fangio’s mark, since the five-time champion has fallen to 37th position overall, he has already been surpassed by names like Carlos Sainz , Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc or Pierre Gasly, and will soon fall to the detriment of others like Stephen Ocon.