{"id":4249,"date":"2010-04-08T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:41:57","slug":"massa-also-title-leader-under-old-points-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-also-title-leader-under-old-points-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa also title leader under old points system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Even under F1&#8217;s old points system, Felipe Massa would be the leader of the 2010 world championship after three races.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For this year, the points scoring positions were extended from eighth to tenth, while the winner is awarded 25 points rather than the 10 handed out in 2009 and earlier.<\/p>\n<p>But the other points scorers also earn more points in 2010, leading to some pre-season predictions that suggested that winning would in fact not be better rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>After the first three races of 2010, the top seven drivers are separated by just nine points, and the leader is Massa, who has not yet won a race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, it is (close) &#8212; which is perhaps surprising given the new points system,&#8221; said Lewis Hamilton on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Applying the results of the first three races with last year&#8217;s points system would also have seen Massa leading the championship.\u00a0 Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel would also remain second and third.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I was the only one who thought that the new points system would reward the fastest drivers more than those who are simply more consistent,&#8221; said Melbourne winner Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton is currently fourth in the standings ahead of Nico Rosberg, while under the old points system he would be fifth and behind the Mercedes driver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we&#8217;ve seen in the first three races that consistency still counts for a lot,&#8221; added Button.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even under F1&#8217;s old points system, Felipe Massa would be the leader of the 2010 world championship after three races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,130,5261,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}