British Rally Driver Ranking List
Available Ranking Lists
Ranking
List 2005 Issue 5
(Including events to 13th November, published in Motorsport News
14th December)
Ranking
List 2005 Issue 4
(Including events to 16th October, published in Motorsport News
16th November)
Ranking
List 2005 Issue 3
(Including events to 18th September, published in Motorsport News
26th October)
Ranking
List 2005 Issue 2
(Including events to 10th July, not published by Motorsport News)
Ranking
List 2005 Issue 1
(Including events to 22nd May, published in Motorsport News 15th
June)
Background
Tynemouth Computer Services (TCS) have provided
seeding information to rally organisers for more than twenty years.
The seeding information is derived from a statistical analysis
of stage times. In 1997 TCS were approached by the Rally Championship
Steering Group (which meets under the auspices of the MSA) to
produce a unified ranking list for British Rally Drivers competing
at championship level. The ranking list was sponsored by Sony
in association with Volkswagen Motor Sport from 1998 to 2000.
Pirelli took over the sponsorship in 2001 and the top hundred
names will be published in Motorsport News (formerly Motoring
News) at regular intervals during the season. The full list now
runs to nearly four thousand names and due to significant demand
from competitors, the Rally Championship Steering Group and Pirelli
have kindly given permission for an extended list covering the
top three hundred drivers to be published. The efforts of Steve
Gregg in promoting the Ranking List are also acknowledged.
The algorithms used to derive the ranking
list are proprietary but the general principals on which they
are based are as follows:
- The rankings are a measure of the combination
of driver and car. No attempt is made to separate out the performance
of the vehicle.
- The rankings are based predominantly on
typical stage times with poor times due to punctures, mechanical
problems or offs excluded by a statistical analysis. Overall
positions influence the rankings to a much smaller extent.
- The rankings are based on a drivers best
3 performances with a small weighting towards the best performance.
- Ranking performances are aged after 6
months to reduce their significance so that to remain at the
top, a driver has to continue to produce good performances; but
someone who has a run of bad luck will not suddenly vanish from
the rankings.
- The rankings are based on performances
in the World Rally Championship, Kwik-Fit Pirelli British Rally
Championship, MSA National Gravel Rally Championship, ANCRO Clubmans
Gavel Rally Championship, Silverstone Competition Tyres (BTRDA)
Gold Star championship, Silkolene (BTRDA) 1400 Championship,
GPR MSA National Asphalt Rally Championship, the County Saab
Scottish Championship and the Welsh National Championship together
with selected other events.
- Factors to relate performances in the
various championships are derived from the performances of drivers
who compete in rounds of more than one championship.