pokerman wrote:
F1 has never been a spec formula nor has it ever been a level playing field that's why the best drivers endeavor to get in the best teams which started in its inception in 1950, Fangio constantly changed teams to ensure he was in the best car.
Not only does that not challenge my position that having only a WCC would be a more accurate representation of the championship, it even reinforces it. F1 has, indeed, always been an engineering challenge as much as or more than a driving challenge, even in the days before the WCC was instituted.
pokerman wrote:
Given all this it's always better that the WDC is seen as an elite driver, I just don't understand the reasoning that it's better and more honest when a tier 2 driver becomes the WDC as it shows F1 for what it is, in respect to Rosberg I think he was a little bit better than a tier 2 driver.
Yes, but why does a WDC need to exist at all? It could exist purely as an auxiliary award, just like in any other team sport. The only real reason to promote the driver over the team - when the former is in fact almost wholly dependent on the latter - is because it's easier to market the driver. In actual fact, the driver is just one highly visible component of a machine with a thousand parts. But the bottom line is - and every F1 fan knows this - that it is the team that determines what the driver can achieve, not the other way around.