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Add totalPoints to constructor and engine manufacturer statistics
For driver statistics we currently already differentiating between totalPoints and totalChampionshipPoints.
E.g. Ayrton Senna has 614 totalPoints and 610 totalChampionshipPoints.
This due to the fact up until 1990, not all points scored contributed to their final World Championship tally.
Now for totalPoints we simply sum all points from the race results and for totalChampionshipPoints we sum all points from the driver standings.
For constructors and engine manufacturers we currently only offer the totalChampionshipPoints statistics by summing up all points from the constructor standings.
But for constructors and engine manufacturers we don't have a totalPoints statistic yet.
Unfortunately it's not a matter of just summing up all points from the race results because:
- Constructors only started scoring points from 1958
- Williams not receiving points in 1995 Brazilian GP, but driver (Coulthard) did
- McLaren excluded from the 2007 championship so no points scored, but drivers did
- ..
To solve this we probably have to add something to the raw race result data.
E.g. a constructorPoints field that could override the points field if specified.
Similar we could add a totalDriverPoints to the constructor / engine manufacturer statistics.
There is some info in Stats F1 (https://www.statsf1.com/en/1958.aspx) that would require some web scraping, but I think that is what you are looking for.
