Formula One may be on the brink of overhauling its points system again.
Just over a one month after the old 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 system was replaced with a MotoGP-type format of 25-20-15-10-8-6-5-3-2-1 points, plans are underway to give even greater reward for winning a race.
At the Sporting Working Group think-tank meeting in London last week, teams approved a further overhaul to reward more for race wins.
Rather than there being a five points different between first and second, teams agreed to expand that difference to seven points - with further tweaks to the points taking place lower down the order.
The new points structure being proposed is: 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1.
The matter still needs to be approved by next month's meeting of the Formula One Commission before the FIA World Motor Sport Council can put it into the 2010 regulations.
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Re: F1 points to be overhauled again
Viltrupuratrive, you idiot!
Re: F1 points to be overhauled again
Whatever way they do it Jenson would still have won.
If only half as much time was spent on discussing how to allow faster cars and drivers to overtake slower ones.
I'm no engineer, but six inches off each side of both wings just might be a starting point.
Re: F1 points to be overhauled again
Go 'home' now, you. You 'go' home now. You go, and when 'you' get home or 'home', you watch 'football', and your Vinnie 'Jones'.
You go 'now', and you leave this place to 'people' and 'men' (just like me) who use this space to discuss the most important 'thing' what the Universe or God or whomever you want has ever done (or let occur naturally, depending on your beliefs).
I, personally, am a great believer in the godliness of Michael Schumacher; second only to someone like - shall we say? - William Hague or someone equal like Anne Widdecombe. Actually, maybe He's just a little bit better than Michael Portillo or Anne Widdecombe in pure F1 terms.
I'd like to veer off (pardon my French) and have that discussed here with like-minded people without Vinnie Jonesie's supporters cluttering it all up with their viltupuratrive bile!
Yes, you heard me!