Among The New Rules described in the previous section, two will bear direct effect onto the championship count, itself: the new points system (the fifth used in Formula One racing to date, as detailed on the page All Points Systems) and the ban on Team orders.
The page Drivers-Comparison evidences the difference that both the new points system and the no team orders rule effective in 2003 would have made in the results of the 2002 Championship, had they already been in force during the 2002 Season .
A comparison of this sort can be useful not only in allowing an impression of what the 2003 Drivers' Championship might look like, but also in serving as a point of reference for comparing a driver's performance in 2003 with his performance in 2002 -- a common denominator is readily at hand.
The same should be true of the page Constructors-Comparison, as far as the Constructors' Championship is concerned.
A detailed account of what the 2002 Championship would have come to, had the rules effective in 2003 already been in force in 2002, is on the page What if 2002...,
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