Double points, Standing restarts and radio bans all scrapped

[Crafty_]

As per Tobias Grüner's twitter.

Common sense, whatever next!

[Jasandjules]

Kind of a pity about the radio ban though, it was a bit more interesting to have the driver have to do the working it out for themselves.

[Inertiatic]

Aye - the radio ban made sense - hard to enforce I guess though

[Doink]

Double points was never going to last but I wouldn't mind seeing points for pole positions and fastest laps

[Park'O]

Excellent.

[zac510]

Jasandjules said:

Kind of a pity about the radio ban though, it was a bit more interesting to have the driver have to do the working it out for themselves.

I was looking forward to that too. The partial ban in the 2nd half of 2014 season didn't seem to cause them any noticeable problems.

[MiniMan64]

Inertiatic said:

Aye - the radio ban made sense - hard to enforce I guess though

And just think of all the Kimi based humour we'd miss out on!

[slipstream 1985]

1 point for pole? i'd like that idea

[noell35]

Doink said:

Double points was never going to last but I wouldn't mind seeing points for pole positions and fastest laps

I like the idea but can't help but think that the bottom end teams would just produce a qualifying spec car to get the points and sod the race?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

noell35 said:

Doink said:

Double points was never going to last but I wouldn't mind seeing points for pole positions and fastest laps

I like the idea but can't help but think that the bottom end teams would just produce a qualifying spec car to get the points and sod the race?

Wouldn't that make the race interesting though?

[zac510]

Imagine the whinging on web forums when the championship is won on a Saturday.

[illmonkey]

zac510 said:

Imagine the whinging on web forums when the championship is won on a Saturday.

Indeed! It's not nice watching the last race when someones already won the championship. It is good watching a battle to the end. Last weekend, hammy didn't NEED pole, but still went for it, as it's the best way to with a champ.

[Doink]

I just remember the old days of btcc when Mike Smith pitted for fresh tyres and got fastest lap and the points that came with it and someone had to explain to Frank Sytner that it was his team mate, he was furious

[JonRB]

zac510 said:

Jasandjules said:

Kind of a pity about the radio ban though, it was a bit more interesting to have the driver have to do the working it out for themselves.

I was looking forward to that too. The partial ban in the 2nd half of 2014 season didn't seem to cause them any noticeable problems.

According to Autosport, the ban in its current form will remain, rather than being made tighter still as was planned:
"The Strategy Group also agreed that F1's radio ban would remain in its current guise for 2015.
It means that only direct help for drivers will be outlawed - rather than pursuing the hardline clampdown on all team-to-driver communication as was originally planned."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116953

[Catatafish]

Slightly OT, but is there a way to replay the radio messages on some site either during the race, or post-race?

[mattikake]

Pity, I was looking forward to standing restarts. Maybe they should allow side-by-side rolling restarts from SC like Indycar?

[Speedy11]

Catatafish said:

Slightly OT, but is there a way to replay the radio messages on some site either during the race, or post-race?

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/category/regular-featur...

This is normally the easiest way to get them a few days after the race.

[JontyR]

Doink said:

Double points was never going to last but I wouldn't mind seeing points for pole positions and fastest laps

Id like to see the same points awarded on a Saturday as they are on a sunday...but then reverse the grid for the race. It would mean you'd aim for 25 points on the qualifier start in 10th place and have to race to get another 25 points for the win without just pissing off into the sunset as per most of the pole sitters.

[zac510]

JontyR said:

Id like to see the same points awarded on a Saturday as they are on a sunday...but then reverse the grid for the race. It would mean you'd aim for 25 points on the qualifier start in 10th place and have to race to get another 25 points for the win without just pissing off into the sunset as per most of the pole sitters.

Does that mean if you had a 10 place grid penalty for changing your engine you'd move up the grid?

[LordGrover]

slipstream 1985 said:

1 point for pole? i'd like that idea

& fastest lap?