F1 Points Calculator - 2008 Season

Explore the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship results and simulate alternative standings. Use our drag-and-drop calculator to see how the closest title finish in F1 history could have gone differently.

2008 F1 Season Highlights

• 18 races, opening in Australia and ending in Brazil — one more race than 2009 (France and Canada were still on the calendar)
• 11 teams, 22 drivers — Super Aguri folded after Round 4 (Spain), reducing the grid for the remainder of the season
• Lewis Hamilton wins his first World Championship by 1 point over Felipe Massa, decided at the final corner of the final race in Brazil — Massa won the race but Hamilton passed Glock for P5 on the last lap to take the title
• Sebastian Vettel's first F1 win at Monza for Toro Rosso, becoming the youngest race winner in F1 history at the time
• Inaugural Singapore Grand Prix — the first ever F1 night race
• Ferrari wins the Constructors' Championship (Massa + Räikkönen)
• Last year of Honda F1 — the team withdrew at end of season and was bought by Ross Brawn, becoming Brawn GP for 2009
• Same 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 top-8 points system as 2009 — the penultimate year before F1's modern 25-18-15 overhaul
• No Sprint races, no fastest lap bonus point

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