Darth-Piekus wrote: ↑22 Oct 2024, 09:41
Im not sure there was ever a time where the drivers championship became higher than the constructors championship.
Became? It was always higher. For you to know, when all of this started, I mean Formula 1 was created, there wasn't even any other championship. Only 9 years later, in 1958 the so-called "International Cup for F1 Manufacturers" (Constructors later) standing was created, the points were counted differently than today. 1981 was the first year when "World Constructors' Championship" was introduced. So basically, for 31 years there was only one "Championship" "World Drivers' Championship", and you tell us it wasn't the most important? It is the essence of Formula 1. Nothing has changed since. It's the main, the most important championship, one and only truly meaningful Championship, the most desired and the most celebrated by any team (let alone their fans). This is why nobody cared too much when Ferrari won the Constructors in 1999, but the whole Italy celebrated Michael bringing the Title back to Maranello in 2000 after a twenty-year drought. This is why everyone at Red bull gone crazy out of happiness when they lost the Constructors in Abu-Dhabi, whilst Mercedes won it, but weren't celebrating, and later the team didn't even come to prize giving ceremony, sending one member of their team to receive a trophy. If that was the most important trophy, surely they wouldn't effectively ignore it.
There is not a single team up and down the grid that would trade a victory in the Drivers' Championship for a victory in the constructors' Cup. Thing is, not everyone would admit that openly for obvious reasons, like Horner did. That's why some fans naively think only red bull rate Drivers championship higher. This is totally wrong. Of course they all would love to win the Constructors as well, but rather as a bonus rather than #1 goal, which by the way normally comes naturally, as the team that can build the best car normally wins both Championships.