Alonso's championship would require Hunt's rising

Only the most fanatic Ferrari-fans believe that Fernando Alonso still could reach Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel in this years WDC-battle in F1.

Vettel leads Alonso with 92 points (204-112). The Spanish driver should therefore reach the German by approximately 9,2 points per GP during the last 10 GP-weekends.

There's only one in the history who has achieved in doing that, it required Niki Lauda's extremely serious injury in the 10th GP in 1976 at Nürburgring. Lauda was then leading McLaren's James Hunt by 35 points (61-26), which with today's system would mean that Lauda would have been 98 points ahead of Hunt (176-78).

Hunt rose with his 7-races long sting and won the WDC with one point, after Lauda stopped in the last rainy race after two laps. Back then Lauda got only 7 points from the remaining races (27 points with the new system).

After Hunt, Kimi Räikkönen with Ferrari came from most behind in 2007 and became WDC.

Turun Sanomat

HEIKKI KULTA

Facts

Biggest rises to the championship:

1976 James Hunt McLaren from behind 35 points (after 9 races)

2007 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari from behind 26 points (after 7 races)

1964 John Surtees Ferrari from behind 20 points (after 5 races)

1988 Ayrton Senna McLaren from behind18 points (after 4 races)

1982 Keke Rosberg Williams from behind 16 points (after 2 races)

2003 Michael Schumacher Ferrari from behind 16 points (after 3 races)

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