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Originally Posted by broadrun96
So he bins it in the wall and the team gets no points? Well that's not fair to them, they didn't do anything wrong, why should they lose out on points?
He didn't do anything wrong but the car didn't take the start. He was entered but something broke. It's still a GP entry. Sitting other than that is trying to pretend bad things don't happen and be delusional. Not a black mark against him as a driver but points are earned as a team, points are lost as a team.
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If he bins it, it's a DNF, not a DNS.
Yep, motorsport is definitely a team game but you simply can't judge a driver or team performance in a race when they didn't start the race. For sure you could judge the team's prep but that's about as far as it goes.
The post you commented on was comparing the performance of the drivers at (t)RP this year - when comparing drivers (which is all the other post did), you can't include a DNS and be statistically correct.