The F1 Season 2024 as rated by OcUK

Feek · 2024-12-11T08:48:51+0000

I've been through all the race threads for this year and worked out a score for each race. I used the same scoring system as F1 so 25 points for 10/10, down to 1 point for 1/10. I then worked out the maximum available points by multiplying the number of people who voted by 25 and then calculated the score as a percentage against the possible maximum.

I've included Monaco even though the poll was a joke with only one available option.

The win for Lewis at Silverstone was clearly the highlight of the year for OcUK and I think this is a decent representation of the season overall.

I did chuckle a little bit as I went through the polls to see that we have someone who always seems to vote 10 if Max wins and 1 if he doesn't :cry:

Kenai · 2024-12-11T08:59:07+0000

Would be interesting to see the scores chronologically too - did ratings improve overall during the period we had a 'title fight' and there was some actually jeopardy to the results?

Bounce · 2024-12-11T09:01:28+0000

Kenai said:
Would be interesting to see the scores chronologically too - did ratings improve overall during the period we had a 'title fight' and there was some actually jeopardy to the results?

But the constructors title was won on the last race of the season?

Are you implying the drivers title is more important that the constructors ?

Feek · 2024-12-11T09:05:21+0000

Bounce said:
Are you implying the drivers title is more important that the constructors ?

I imagine the majority of spectators consider the drivers title is more important than the constructors.

Kenai · 2024-12-11T09:06:26+0000

Bounce said:
But the constructors title was won on the last race of the season?

...and it would be interesting to see if the ratings were better during the period that became a 'title fight' compared to 'McLaren pretty much have this sewn up already'.

Just as it would be interesting to see if the ratings were better during the period the drivers title was a 'title fight' compared to 'Max has this sewn up'.

Emlyn_Dewar · 2024-12-11T09:11:38+0000

Even with Monaco included using the joke poll, it's score is still too high.

I'm not sure Silverstone was the race of the year for me, but I honestly can't remember what I was voting and am too lazy to look. I think I preferred Spa.

GravyMonster · 2024-12-11T09:13:51+0000

I've kept a Google sheet of the voting since 2021, although I've not really gone through the data yet. Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/185UDYIuPfJJ0-7kVjukg1-h_HaSdiq8-amBBRAIiZlw/edit?usp=sharing

It looks like this year was the highest rated since 2021, averaging 6.16 per race with the worst being 2023 with 5.02 per race. The best race in that period was GB 2024 at 8.95, and worst was Monaco 2021 at 2.54 - but this excludes Belgium 2021 (as the only options were 'medical car' and 'safety car') and Monaco 2024 (as the only available voting option was '1').

cuke2u · 2024-12-11T09:32:53+0000

Emlyn_Dewar said:
Even with Monaco included using the joke poll, it's score is still too high.
I'm not sure Silverstone was the race of the year for me, but I honestly can't remember what I was voting and am too lazy to look. I think I preferred Spa.

It is understandable some will always vote higher because their favourite driver won the race, I try to vote purely on how good the actual race is. However I still would have liked to have been able to vote for Monaco and not had it censored by one person's opinion..

Emlyn_Dewar · 2024-12-11T09:38:18+0000

Could Monaco have scored higher than a 2 this year based on what you say? You can give it an extra point for some needless Magnussen nonsense, but I'd say that was one of it's worst races ever.