Jonesy
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FIA are a joke - F1 Championship rule change
The Official Formula 1 Website
What have the FIA done!
This means that the most consistently good driver over the whole season won't always win. It basically rules out all point of having a second driver, and teams such as BMW, Brawn, Red Bull who have no clear, dominant 1st driver will struggle. This basically means the minnow teams like Toro Rosso have no point in the competition.
And why change it now? We've just had the two most gripping, exciting, thrilling finishes in Formula 1 over the past 2 seasons. Both coming down to last race and last year's even coming down to the last corner. Everyone remembers how thrilling that was, believing Massa had it in the bag, his team and family going wild after he won, only to realise that Hamilton had clawed back a position. With the new system, this won't happen, and the champion will likely be decided much earlier than usual. Booooooring. This just happens to be when BMW with Kubica really could of taken out the title out of left field. With this new system I can't see it happening now.
I was looking forward to the new F1 season, and now this. I CBF staying up until 4 in the morning to watch the races now when only P1 matters.
FFS!
Formula One racing’s governing body, the FIA, has approved a change to the points systems for this year’s drivers’ championship, which will see the title awarded to the driver with the most race wins. The rest of the standings, from second to last place, will be decided by the current points system.
If two or more drivers finish the season with the same number of wins, the title will be awarded to the driver with the most points, the allocation of points being based on the existing 10, 8, 6 etc. structure. The constructors’ championship is unaffected.
The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council accepted the proposal for the new system from Formula One Management at a meeting in Paris on Tuesday. An alternative proposal to change the points awarded to drivers finishing in first, second and third place to 12, 9 and 7 points respectively was rejected.
The Official Formula 1 Website
What have the FIA done!
This means that the most consistently good driver over the whole season won't always win. It basically rules out all point of having a second driver, and teams such as BMW, Brawn, Red Bull who have no clear, dominant 1st driver will struggle. This basically means the minnow teams like Toro Rosso have no point in the competition.
And why change it now? We've just had the two most gripping, exciting, thrilling finishes in Formula 1 over the past 2 seasons. Both coming down to last race and last year's even coming down to the last corner. Everyone remembers how thrilling that was, believing Massa had it in the bag, his team and family going wild after he won, only to realise that Hamilton had clawed back a position. With the new system, this won't happen, and the champion will likely be decided much earlier than usual. Booooooring. This just happens to be when BMW with Kubica really could of taken out the title out of left field. With this new system I can't see it happening now.
I was looking forward to the new F1 season, and now this. I CBF staying up until 4 in the morning to watch the races now when only P1 matters.
FFS!