- The concept will likely be thought of by the F1 Fee in Geneva on Thursday
- The highest 5 groups in F1 have dominated the world championship this season
- None of the remainder of the constructors have scored a degree in opening 5 races
Method One will hand out factors to the highest 12 finishers in races from subsequent season if a controversial revamp is authorized on Thursday.
It will lengthen the previous approach of rewarding the highest 10 drivers, itself an evolution from a earlier scoring system that acknowledged the highest six.
It’s understood that the main groups are contemplating whether or not to help the transfer, which is up earlier than the F1 Fee in Geneva, although most of will ‘attend’ remotely.
The proposed transfer would then want the approval of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council.
The concept has been mooted earlier than and discarded, and could also be once more, although there’s a higher want to create curiosity down the sector in a world championship through which the highest 5 groups – Purple Bull, Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and Aston Martin – have dominated.
World Champion Max Verstappen (above) has received 38 of the final 49 races in Method One
The highest 5 groups in F1 have dominated the world championship this season
None of the remainder of the constructors have scored a degree within the opening 5 races.
‘Even the underside 5 groups are massive organisations and it’s very troublesome to elucidate to the skin world, to our companions, and to our followers, that we battle for P11 nevertheless it really positive factors zero factors,’ says Laurent Mekies, crew principal of the Racing Bulls crew, the previous AlphaTauri. The Italian is a chief proponent of the proposal.
A number of traditionalists are against the concept.
Former racer Martin Brundle, now Sky’s prime pundit who received 98 factors beneath the previous scoring system within the Eighties and Nighties, mentioned: ‘Method One world championship factors should be arduous received and treasured. Valued. It’s not some sort of fortunate dip, the place everybody wins a prize.’
