http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/formula-1-f1-award-double-points-final-race-182935266--f1.html

 

Anyone seen this....?

 

There's no denying it could make things interesting at the end of the season, but is it really necessary?

Load of *****cks.

 

I reckon it'll get dropped before the season starts. Some of the crap they are coming out with in the name of entertainment is shocking.

Introduced to try and stop Vettel winning it with races to spare I guess...

It could make the teams keep updating there cars right up to the last race instead of moving on to the next years car before the season has ended. But still can't see Vettel and Red Bull being caught next season.

Would of only made a difference to three championships in the last 20 years!....needless to say this year would have made no difference either, perhaps better for those teams fighting for position, but lets be honest it's all tinkering and getting away from the main point..

 

All the time you allow teams to get away with spending 3 x the budget of another you will never know who is the best. Budgets! Budgets! Budgets! big or small make them the same, unleash the rules to make the dynamics down to innovation and see who wins!...plenty of bright people out there and not all called Adrian!!

Edited December 10, 201312 yr by SteveE
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Pointless. He will just win by more lol

F1 has gotten rather tedious over the past few years. Remember the Schumacher years? Monumental nauseum. I guess Vettel does at least have a personality, albeit an annoying one. I love F1, but its recent predictability has left me bereft somewhat. There is still some good fighting midway down the pack usually, but I wanna see scrapping for the championship again. Really needs spicing up somehow.

Lets hope Raikkonen in a Ferrari spices it up. I love his fearless driving skills and his team radio quotes "Leave me alone, I know what Iam doing":cool3:

Lets hope Raikkonen in a Ferrari spices it up. I love his fearless driving skills and his team radio quotes "Leave me alone, I know what Iam doing":cool3:

so well he might but that said . theres no I in team.

I used to watch everyone i could years ago but its lack the the fun watch factor unlike touring cars wich is great to watch becuase of the close rules of car delelopment bhp ect. same as carting you go down to the local cart center nice set up cart is always going to win. as far as im concerned they should all have the same set up. and if they want two of twenty set of tyres to change then thats were the racing side comes in. its shown in the drivers aswell. you put vettel in a lower ranking and lower funded money pit, no matter how good he is he ant going to win.

But that's the fundemental difference of F1, its not having the same equipment, it's having the very best technical skills allied to the most talented drivers. It is the lower formulas that are designed to be the same in order that drivers can show there talents as they move up the ranks.

 

The higher the formula the less control over the technical regs, but Formula One is meant to be the pinnacle. The problem lies in the cost of running an F1 team, years ago during Ferraris domination, they spent billions of Fiats rapidly depleting cash on the F1 program, this coupled with the talented drivers and team bossed allowed them to rule the roost....until the money started drying up!

 

Now Red bull have taken the mantle, the highest unlimited budget over £200m last year, a junior team program (Torro Rosso) the best talent in the technical department, although alot of that has is moving next year to other teams, and a focus on a sport that in time they will decide no longer holds their interest as marketing tool. Red Bull are a drinks firm and offer nothing to the industry that they participate in and so at some point they will walk away, with a huge trophy cabinet.

 

The problem with F1 is they are no longer allowed to push the boundaries of technical innovation, racing is styfled by the inequality of budgets resulting in paid and budget drivers sharing the same grid. Then we have the spinelss FIA who will not enforce a budget allocation to the teams and at the same time dream up rules that nobody has asked for, ahead of a season that with so many changes we just don't know how competative the teams will be and who that will be?

 

This latest points rule is designed to dress up the dullest race in F1 that now is the final race in the calender (albeit now a night race) it is a cynical rule that is meant to generate excitement ahead of even knowing if it's needed, if your going to do this make it one of the Blue Ribbon races such as Spa, Monza, Suzuka, Silverstone or Monaco, Mid season leaving everthing to play for.

 

This season was won because a single team pressured the powers that be, to revert back to a tyre specification that there car was built around, because the nominated tyre supplier wasn't allowed to test fully their compounds before the season started, up until Silverstone it was all to play for...after Silverstone it was a done deal.

 

Drivers racing at 80% of their ability because of tyre deg is Formula three! Lets have more tyre testing, Lower, level budgets and wider parameters for design innovation and we get rid of stupid pious rules that negate great racing and destroy the spectacle...then Formula One will be again the Pinnacle of competative International Motorpsort.

 

Gripe over! Lol

What was wrong with the old point system?

 

10for a win 8for 2nd etc