Gaia-195059

The 1950s & 1960s saw the first F1 seasons, with three different but close scoring systems. Gaia, Tartarus and Eros are the first entities to emerge from Chaos in Greek mythology.

Tartarus represents the year 1960, and Eros represents the period 1961-66.

Gaia is the universe where they use the scoring system from 1950-59: 8-6-4-3-2 for the first 5 drivers of each race, with 1 point for fastest lap. But there's a catch. At the end of the season, only just over half of your best race results are retained towards the World Championship points.

The 1959 season had 9 races. But only the best 5 race results of a driver mattered in the end. And 5 is just over 4.5 = 50% x 9.

For example, if a season has 20 races, then 20/2 = 10, and 11 is just over 10 - 50% of 20 races. So only a driver's best 11 race results matter in the end.

We find this "just over the 50% of races" throughout the period 1950-59, but a few seasons act a bit different.

1955, I don't know what's going on there. With their shared drives all over the place... And they counted 5 races out of 7. A few other seasons are just at 50% of race results. But in order to have a homogenous scoring system throughout all the seasons of F1 this universe adopted the rule of "just over 50% of best race results" that we encountered in Tartarus and Eros too.

I haven't explored this universe yet. The data are very messy with fast laps. So messy I can't see shit anymore!! I need to remove a tear-off, quick! Hopefully it won't end up on Leclerc's car...