For 2009 the FIA has changed the points system for the drivers’ championship, now the title will be 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 more than one driver finishes the season with the same number of wins, the title will be awarded to the driver with the most points as was the system previously. The constructors’ championship will remain the same.
The FIA accepted the proposal for the new system from Formula One Management at a meeting in Paris on Tuesday. Another idea was to award the points to drivers finishing in first, second and third place 12, 9 and 7 points but this was rejected.
This would've meant that Felipe Massa would have won the championship last year. It also means that reliability will not be such an issue as long as you win races. Which would have aided a driver such as Kimi Raikkonen last year who could of just gone for wins in the second half of the season to clinch the championship and would not have to worry about his DNFs. It will also mean that when there are situations like Brazil again Lewis Hamilton will not be able to race for 5th place to pick up a few points he will have to go for race wins.
This is all no doubt to spice up the world championship and to make drivers go for race wins instead of being cautious. How much it will make people go for race wins we will have to see. However there is the possibility that a driver could wrap up the championship by race 9 of 17 it also means that we have almost gone full circle back to the old system of points dropping in the late 80s. Not to mention the fact there has been a real push for multi race engines. It begs the question now that does it matter if your engine fails every other race if your winning every other race? Also will lesser teams be running odd strategies to try and win races to get in with a shout at the championship? Will everyone be going out to win races no matter what? Will it be carnage? Either way it's not long left to wait till the lights go out and we see how the teams use this new rule change.
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so this means somebody could win 2 races with a total of say 30 points and somone win one race with multiple podiums with 50 points and lose the championship? I suspect this will put an end to close finishes to the season. Any idea what is the motivation for changing a system that produced the closest finish ever?
Did you see the interview with the poisoned dwarf in the guardian last saturday? he is making it plain that if donnington is not ready( a racing certainty) there will be no british GP and anyway he would much rather extra races go to any dictatorship which will pay him more money so that races can be run in front of empty stands like dubai. I suppose he has to pay his divorce settlement somehow. Richard
Nice blog, very interesting. I have to point out that it's "would have" or "would've" NOT "would of". Sorry to be such a pedant but it's a glaring error.
I'll try harder to watch my would of / haves / 'ves >Slaps wrist<
Yes it does mean that for example someone with three wins would win the champsionship over someone with two wins and a lot more points. The whole point is try and get people to try and overtake instead of playing it safe and trailing around in second place.
It's also to try and stop a situation like we had in Brazil. However close it was I feel Bernie Ecclestone wishes to create a situation in which they would of been racing at the front for the win against each other... Some would say that would be even more exciting for the casual viewer and what people want to see.
It does seem Bernie Ecclestone is happy to let F1 races go to the highest bidder. A tradegy for the sport but ultimately this is a capatalist sport. Their not looking to be nice. Bernie works on the basis that the teams can like it or lump it... and that the money comes from the TV not ticket sales. The only team which has a real say in all this I think is Ferrari... So were always have an Italian GP.
nice to see you have such a grammatically literate readership. richard
Although they have now reverted to the old points system for the new season I think it's slightly irroneous to talk of Massa winning the title last year under the 'new' proposals. The point is that if Massa had not been handed the race on a plate by a disgraceful descision in Spa this would never had been the case and Mamilton would have won the WDC on race wins as well. And rather ironically Massa was chugging along in third not even trying to win!
Johnny
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