You fuckin' serious? It is what the bloody numbers are gonna be anyway. Do they or do they not issue them in order of constructors championship positions of the previous year? I'm pretty sure they do. I have been waiting to do that edit for a long time and it went down the fucking shitter. Criticise me all the bloody more. TollHRT52 17:19, 29 November 2012 (AEDST)
No, not always. It is a general rule but it has been varied on a number of occasions, for example HRT and Brawn both requested their numbers be changed in their first years and it was approved. In Brawns case it had occurred when BMW-Sauber ended its Formula One journey and Sauber re-entered at the end of the list as its constructors position was no longer respected. Brawn though had already spent million on merchadising based on the numbers they expected prior to Sauber's dilemma. The FIA accedded to the request and the numbers were changed.
However the principal is the numbers are issued by the FIA and not by anyone else. And at the moment they have not done so. The moment the FIA does issue the numbers they can be added but until that point you are assuming that previous practice will take place and that is DIRECTLY against Wikipedias policy of editing in which we never, ever assume a fact is correct, we wait until it has been confirmed, in this case by the FIA. You can read about it at WP:ASSUME. Thank you for your time.
The short version is we never ever guess. We never ever assume. We wait until it is officially announced.
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The early season was tumultuous, with seven different drivers winning the first seven races of the championship; a record for the series. It was not until the European Grand Prix in June that a driver, Ferrari'sFernando Alonso, won his second race of the year, and with it, emerged as a championship contender. Alonso maintained his hold on the championship lead for the next seven races, taking his third win in Germany and finishing on the podium in the United Kingdom, Italy and Singapore. However, costly first-lap retirements in Belgium and Japan allowed his rivals to catch up, and defending World ChampionSebastian Vettel — like Alonso, a two-time winner — took the lead in the sixteenth race of the season. Vettel, too, encountered difficulties throughout the season; contact with a backmarker left him to finish outside the points in Malaysia, while alternator failures at the European and Italian Grands Prix cost him valuable points and exclusion from qualifying in Abu Dhabi led him to start from the pit lane. Vettel entered the final race of the season with a thirteen-point lead over Alonso. Alonso needed a podium finish to stand any chance of becoming World Drivers' Champion, but in a race of attrition that finished under the safety car, Vettel finished in sixth place, scoring enough points to win his third consecutive championship, becoming the third driver to do so. In the World Constructors' Championship, Red Bull Racing secured their third consecutive title when Sebastian Vettel finished second at the United States Grand Prix.
In addition to seeing seven drivers win the first seven races, the 2012 season broke several records. The calendar for the season included twenty races, breaking the previous record of nineteen, which was first set in 2005. Six current or former World Drivers' Champions — Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Räikkönen, and Michael Schumacher — started the season, breaking the record of five established in 1970.
* Felipe Massa (7th, 1:36.937; 6th after Grosjean penalty) was given a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change. Late Massa grid penalty promotes Alonso
* Race finished under neutralised safety car conditions.
† Pastor Maldonado (6th; 1:13.174) was given a ten-place grid penalty for receiving his third reprimand of the season. This was due to missing the weigh-bridge during qualifying. [1]
TollHRT52, why did you think that this edit was a good idea? The Monte Carlo and Catalunya rallies are formally classified as mixed-surface events. There was absolutely no reason to remove the Tooltips, and you gave no explanation as to why you removed them. Please be more careful in future. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 04:48, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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The early season was tumultuous, with seven different drivers winning the first seven races of the championship; a record for the series. It was not until the European Grand Prix in June that a driver, Ferrari'sFernando Alonso, won his second race of the year, and with it, emerged as a championship contender. Alonso maintained his hold on the championship lead for the next seven races, taking his third win in Germany and finishing on the podium in the United Kingdom, Italy and Singapore. However, costly first-lap retirements in Belgium and Japan allowed his rivals to catch up, and defending World ChampionSebastian Vettel — like Alonso, a two-time winner — took the lead in the sixteenth race of the season. Vettel, too, encountered difficulties throughout the season; contact with a backmarker left him to finish outside the points in Malaysia, while alternator failures at the European and Italian Grands Prix cost him valuable points and exclusion from qualifying in Abu Dhabi led him to start from the pit lane. Vettel entered the final race of the season with a thirteen-point lead over Alonso. Alonso needed a podium finish to stand any chance of becoming World Drivers' Champion, but in a race of attrition that finished under the safety car, Vettel finished in sixth place, scoring enough points to win his third consecutive championship, becoming the third driver to do so. In the World Constructors' Championship, Red Bull Racing secured their third consecutive title when Sebastian Vettel finished second at the United States Grand Prix.
In addition to seeing seven drivers win the first seven races, the 2012 season broke several records. The calendar for the season included twenty races, breaking the previous record of nineteen, which was first set in 2005. Six current or former World Drivers' Champions — Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Räikkönen, and Michael Schumacher — started the season, breaking the record of five established in 1970.
This is not an acceptable form of editing. There is only one way I can describe it: half-arsed. I would say that you put the bare minimum of effort into making that article, except that it's fairly obvious that you didn't put any effort into it at all. This, on the other hand, is the bare minimum of what you should have done when you created that page. Even then, it still meets the criteria for deletion, because four World Championship points in four years is hardly noteworthy.
If you are going to continue with such lazy editing, then you might as well not contribute in the first place. I have asked you in the past to be mindful of how you go about your editing because you are obviously enthusiastic about it, but you seem to have ignored any of the advice that you have been given. You barely even acknowledge it, so please leave a message here once you have read this so that I know you have read and understood it, and that way I will know that I am not wasting my time and effort trying to help you become a better editor. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 08:50, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Formula_One#Test_and_Reserve_Drivers
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