Increasing points further down the field does highlight those drivers who are regular finishers.
Sure, that counts for not much with many people - Mr Consistency. Look at the slating over Kubica being in the title hunt for picking regular low points.
However, like Gav says, why box in a driver who starts at the back or the grid and finishes at Monaco or Spa in 9th, and last after retirements. That is a solid drive where half the field did not finish. To finish in itself is good.
That is a situation where you can be rewarded, and visually documented as a driver who brings home the bacon.
I'd love to see some of the older world championships recalculated to take points to the top 8/10/12/15/entire field.
If I remember correctly, F1 Racing did do this in a back issue in the early 00's late 90's, and it placed the likes of Fisichella or Alesi or whoever it was considerably higher due to their unrewarded tally of outside the points finishes.
Say Di Grassi wins Melbourne in a freak race that is ended early after 75% in monsoon rain conditions. He'd bag 25 points, never finishes in the points again all year, and pretty much would get a top 12 final championship result at the end of the year.
Versus, say, Barichello who'd finish nearly every race around 10th. That is almost best of the rest all year, aside from the insanely superior other cars. Yet at the end, Di Grassi would have approximately the same score.
In that example, I see the points as unfair on the rest of the field.
Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole itEdited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/27/2010 11:42PM by danm.