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F1 News & Discussions => F1 History => Topic started by: Dare on January 25, 2023, 05:17:22 AM
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https://jalopnik.com/the-15-most-successful-formula-1-cars-of-all-time-1849701258
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Certainly win counts and winning percentages are valid ways to count 'success' of a race car. The count is a little unfair given how few races there were in the first 50 years of F1 compared with the modern sport.
Maybe total/average number of cars defeated would help? There were certainly bigger fields in the past, but also some cars ran against several sister/customer cars as well.
The W06 was a dominant machine, but it only beat 8 cars
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Maybe they should take a look at how many other manufacturers copied features from a successful car. That would brine notoriously fragile Lotus into the picture.
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One thing it does show is that having one car totally dominate a season isn't just a modern phenomenon. It also shows that it is far more common in recent years.