bbc wrote:Formula 1 has introduced a new points system that will see the driver with most wins crowned world champion.
The current points system will still operate to decide a tie if two drivers have the same wins and to define all other championship positions.
Had the new rules been in place in 2008, Lewis Hamilton would have lost the title to runner-up Felipe Massa.
From 2010, there will be an optional budget cap of £30m that will reduce some teams' spending by 90%.
The new rules were approved by the World Motor Sport Council of governing body the FIA at a meeting in Paris on Tuesday.
It rejected a proposal by the F1 Teams' Association to tweak the points system to 12-9-7-5-4-3-2-1 from first to eighth places.
Instead, the current 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 system will stay in place.
The budget cap is an attempt to make F1 more accessible to new teams.
Teams choosing to operate within the budget cap will be allowed more technical freedom.
Those teams will be allowed: a more aerodynamically efficient (but standard) underbody; movable wings; an engine which is not subject to a rev limit or a development freeze.
Teams can choose to spend what they like, but operate within more restrictive technical rules - and therefore have a theoretically slower car.
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Edit:
Ok so i jumped the gun and it turns out that only top spot will be determined this way so my fears of no overtaking and stupid end positions on the lower places is not warranted.
However the new system still fundamentally lacks integrity as a driver who wins 5 races and crashes and scrapes second with a multitude of other meagre results does not deserve to beat a driver who wins 4 races and comes second in every other race.
It is not as bad as it thought but it is still awful.
My tip to everyone is be careful betting on Hamilton this year as he will have to start winning races from the off and his car does not look to be able to do that.