2008

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Lewis HamiltonHAM	British	McLaren	98	5
2	Felipe MassaMAS	Brazilian	Ferrari	97	6
3	Kimi RäikkönenRAI	Finnish	Ferrari	75	2
4	Robert KubicaKUB	Polish	BMW Sauber	75	1
5	Fernando AlonsoALO	Spanish	Renault	61	2
6	Nick HeidfeldHEI	German	BMW Sauber	60	0
7	Heikki KovalainenKOV	Finnish	McLaren	53	1
8	Sebastian VettelVET	German	Toro Rosso	35	1
9	Jarno TrulliTRU	Italian	Toyota	31	0
10	Timo GlockGLO	German	Toyota	25	0
11	Mark WebberWEB	Australian	Red Bull	21	0
12	NPNelson Piquet Jr.PIQ	Brazilian	Renault	19	0
13	Nico RosbergROS	German	Williams	17	0
14	Rubens BarrichelloBAR	Brazilian	Honda	11	0
15	Kazuki NakajimaNAK	Japanese	Williams	9	0
16	David CoulthardCOU	British	Red Bull	8	0
17	Sébastien BourdaisBOU	French	Toro Rosso	4	0
18	Jenson ButtonBUT	British	Honda	3	0
19	Giancarlo FisichellaFIS	Italian	Force India	0	0
20	Adrian SutilSUT	German	Force India	0	0
21	Takuma SatoSAT	Japanese	Super Aguri	0	0
22	Anthony DavidsonDAV	British	Super Aguri	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 0 of 22 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 18, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 2008, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 2008, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 2008 is complete: all 18 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.