Formula 1 season finale to be worth double points from 2014

[ShiftingGears]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111795

Already finalised. Another awful decision from the F1 brains trust.

[JasonPotato]

Not the first and won't be the last.

[Koz]

Madness.

[Eau Rouge]

what a farce F1 is becoming....

Its simple for me to award points.

1. point for pole
2. point for fastest lap
3. point for each person you overtake (maybe)
and back to the original points system of 10 for a win maybe 8 for second etc.

[Sage-sg]

I think that it's foolishly!

[Rollo]

There should be quintuple points for being 3rd on the 19th lap of the Grands Prix which fall either side of Michaelmas Day.

Is F1 becoming "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" where everything's made up and the points don't matter?

[Robinho]

I think it's safe (although not family friendly) to say that idea is ,****ing bull****, and that come from someone who doesn't mind the current tyres and quite likes DRS!

[N. Jones]

Stupid.

Why not change the point system to 12-10-7-5-4-3-2-1 or something similar? It was Bernie who cried that wins should be what constitutes a championship. Now that wins = world title that isn't good enough anymore?

[Whyzars]

Wow. The teams will really be trying to do well. Double points, Woo Hoo.

This is actually worse than the DRS, KERS and fuel starvation combined. Dumb, dumb, dumb...

If F1 want to influence the championship then for qualifying, all cars should carry a kilogram handicap for every championship point they have. This extra weight would be removed for the race. Should mix it up and make some cars bloody near undriveable which is what the brains trust craves.

Double points is trying to maintain interest until the final race and to be honest, I'm struggling to maintain interest until the first.

[Storm]

Stupidest decision in any major sport ever I think. A reverse grid like the BTCC used to have would be equally gimmicky but atleast see some good passing to the front. So Vettel/whoever is dominating wins with an even bigger margin at the end of the championship from next year..

Massa would be pissed...had this been in effect back in 2008?