After 12
years of development and refinement from its 2002 inception, my Rating System
is being published.
I have
started with the Formula One era, 1950-2013, and divided it into decades for
practical purposes. The first book contains the 2000-2009 seasons, is 80 pages,
soft-cover bound and available now online. A section entitled ‘Guidelines for interpreting my Rating System’ is included which
briefly explains my System.
Each season
is in three sections, Package, Driver and Car, with the whole field rated and
tabulated, and text discussing mainly the winners and the front-runners. My own
illustrations are used, and do not necessarily show the fastest, top ranked
competitors, but rather a spread for each season. Of course it would be ideal
to use the many excellent journalistic photo-images, but costs would be
prohibitive.
I have
divided the Formula One era into seven decades as follows:
Decade
|
Seasons
|
Winners and front-runners
|
|
1
|
1950
|
1959
|
Fangio
vs Ascari to Hawthorn & Moss.
|
2
|
1960
|
1969
|
Clark
vs Surtees, Graham Hill, Jack Brabham & Gurney to Stewart.
|
3
|
1970
|
1979
|
Stewart
vs Rindt, Peterson & Fittipaldi to Andretti & Reutemann.
|
4
|
1980
|
1989
|
Jones
vs Piquet through Lauda to Senna vs Prost.
|
5
|
1990
|
1999
|
Senna
vs Schumacher to Schumacher vs Hakkinen.
|
6
|
2000
|
2009
|
Schumacher
vs Montoya, Raikkonen & Alonso to Button.
|
7
|
2010
|
2013
|
Vettel
vs Alonso, Hamilton, Raikkonen & Button.
|
Each ten-year
period will be published separately. The sixth decade (2000-2009) is now
available – see ‘Buy my Rating System’
above or click on the link:
For those who
are interested further, additional explanations include:
Chapter 1: Introducing the problem and
implications of my Rating System.
Chapter 2: Literature Review.
Chapter 3: Methodology.
Chapter 4: Findings (Season Summaries).
Chapter 5: Conclusion (replicability of my Rating
System).
Chapters 1,
2, 3 and 5 may also be published.
© Patrick O’Brien. Nothing from this
page can be used without the permission of Patrick E. O’Brien.
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