In part one of Three-Car, One-Car, and Customer Teams, we looked at how Formula 1 teams used to deviate from the two-car model, now, let's see how they can do it in 2018. Let's get the obvious out of the way: this isn't 1975. Cars don't break down left-and-right, and it's no longer a rarity to have half the grid finish, it's the minimum expectation. As such, we can't just let every team run a third car and call it a day. Inevitably that would lead to situations where one team occupies the entire podium, or three occupy the top nine. You could make it so only a team's top-two cars score points, but then things get very confusing very fast – if Mercedes goes 1-2-3 and Ferrari 4-5-6, does...
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