New point proceedure to be dropped?

[kalniel]

FOTA have pointed out a clause in the sporting regulations that mean the new change is invalid: http://www.teamsassociation.org/press-release/2009-03-20/fota-statement

FIA say it'll come in in 2010 instead now.

Following the decision of the World Motorsport Council of the 17 March 2009 to change the way the drivers’ championship is awarded, the Teams gathered and unanimously agreed to question the validity of this decision.
FOTA had made a proposal that was carefully based on the results of a Global Audience Survey, which allowed listening to preferences of the public, and all the Teams firmly believe that these indications should be properly taken into account.
The amendment to the sporting regulations proposed by the World Motorsport Council was not performed in accordance with the procedure provided for by Appendix 5 of the Sporting Regulations and, as per the provisions of the article 199 of the FIA International Sporting Code, it is too late for FIA to impose a change for the 2009 season that has not obtained the unanimous agreement of all the competitors properly entered into the 2009 Formula 1 Championship.
Since the change to the scoring system unanimously agreed by the Teams and proposed to FIA did not receive approval of the WMSC, no change can occur in 2009, and the Teams wish to reaffirm their willingness to collaborate with the FIA in order to jointly define a new point system for the 2010 season within a comprehensive set of measures aimed at further stimulating the attractiveness of the F1 Sport.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Lol, must be very hard for them to get clear on this with only one week left to go, who needs clear rules anyway

 

[Lewis Fergusson]

Ill travel to Max's dungeon or wherever he is now and laugh in his face if this actually happens.

 

[James Johnson]

no get 1 million people to troll into his cave and point and laugh.

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

It's confirmed. The new points system will NOT be used in 2009. Take a look here: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/03/...o-2010-after-f1-teams-spot-fia-rules-blunder/

Still, it says it's been delayed to 2010... I was hoping for it to be completely dumped. :sad: But still, now I've got something to look forward to in 2009!!

 

[Omer Said]

Yes that's great to hear. But they could at least increase the podium points. ?!

And I liked this comment at the link Rhys gave :

THANK YOU FOTA! Could be the saviour of F1, seems FOTA works, and they seem to know what we want (which just happens to be what they want) and hopefully they can make the joke organisation of the FIA see the light. this must be embarassing for the FIA to say the least…..

FIA 0-1 Rest of the World

scorers:

FOTA 20/3/09

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

AMEN!!! :clap:

 

[Rob Goldthorpe]

Saw it on the News last night that they have dropped the new points thing.. Was a bad idea to have "who ever wins the most races wins" The Championship could be over halfway through if they did that!

 

[Damian Henderson]

FIA claims "It's Bernie's fault!"

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73817

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph: "Bernie [Ecclestone, F1's commercial rights holder] told me that he talked to all the teams and everybody was happy.

"I was led to believe they all agreed. The World Council was under the impression that they had all agreed."

 

[Andreas Hultgren]

Guess we all can relax for now and start swearing at the end of the year again

 

[Koray Can]

It surprises me that for all the high tech and strategy involved in F1, the point system(s) seem to have been pulled out of a hat. Economists/game-theorists have been studying this sort of stuff for a while (e.g. http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/markovich/Soccer042508.pdf).

You'd think that for all the money the teams have been pouring into the sport, FIA would provide a system backed with sound science, which could help assuring the teams that their efforts would not be wasted.