How can I get text from a cell using the select statement of the query function in Google Sheets? - arrays

Question

I try to get some data from tab A to tab B using the query function. This all works fine untill I include some data of tab B into the object in the query function.
The thing is, I want to create a scoring sheet that calculates the constructor points based of the first sheet with the driver standings. So tab A looks something like this:
Peter Wright - Team Fast Racers - 85
Cameron Bright - Team Quickies - 60
Marc Feiner - Team Fast Racers - 20
In this example the number correspond to a total amount of points on the right column.
The second tab needing to calculate the constructor points, looks simply like this:
Team Fast Racers 105
Team Quickies 60
Don't look at the amounts. It is just an example.
Now I want to use the query code where I can ask Google Sheets to grab the constructor name from tab B (i.e. Team Fast Racers) and look it up in tab A to get the score from both drivers and sum it up to get the total. This is the syntax now:
=QUERY({'Driver Standings'!$A$4:$T$32; 'Constructor Standings'!A1:C16}; "SELECT T WHERE C = 'B2'", 1)
The problem is that it does not recognize B2 to get the 'Team Fast Racers' name and search for it in tab A. How can I fix this problem.
Again, 2 drivers are in a team and those scores need to be summed up and displayed in the second tab to get a clean constructor championship standings. How can I get the data from tab A based on searching for a string out of tab B column B.
And if that is all done, I would also like the constructor standings (tab B) to be sorted based on amount of points, without losing the structure of the formulas.

Answer 1

first of all, all ranges in { } needs to be of the same size (at least in one dimension). if you are stacking ranges one under another then amount of columns needs to be the same:
{Sheet1!A:C; Sheet2!A:C}
then when you have a "constructed range" as above, you need to use Col references in QUERY statement
so instead of
"select A,C"
it needs to be
"select Col1,Col3"
then if B2 is a numeric number it will be
"where Col1 = "&B2
but if it is a plain text it will be:
"where Col1 = '"&B2&"'"
UPDATE:
tho all you need is:
=QUERY({'Driver Standings'!C4:C\'Driver Standings'!T4:T};
"select Col1,sum(Col2)
where Col1 is not null
group by Col1
order by sum(Col2) desc
label sum(Col2)''")