Playoff style F1 season?

[Bullitt Five-Oh]

Since Abu Dhabi is such a borefest especially when the season is done before F1 goes there I think playoffs could spice things up and keep the season alive until the last race. Nascar does it and even though people hated it when it launched and still hate it for producing champions who might have not become champions if the title was decided on points for whole season but it does keep the things alive throughout the year. We could even have split into regional groups racing in the US/European/Asian subdivisions who then meet and race together at the end of the main season. Any thoughts?

[slipstream 1985]

"comic book guy voice on" Worst idea ever

[Pericoloso]

It's a NO from me.

[Bullitt Five-Oh]

It would allow for more drivers and race circuits to be used during the year... how about now?

[thegreenhell]

We've had many seasons where the title has gone right down the the last race, sometimes the last lap of the last race, so I don't see how opening up the possibility of a freak single event giving the championship to the 'wrong' person adds anything worthwhile. I would file this along with success ballast and reverse grid qualifying in the box labelled 'gimmicks that are tolerable in tin-top racing but have no place in Grand Prix racing'. Sorry.

I quite like the idea of grouping the races into regional mini-series, but only as part of the main championship, not as individual series. It would make some sort of sense logistically if nothing else.

[HardtopManual]

The solution to Abu Dhabi being st is to remove it from the calendar.

[Exige77]

No from me also

[Andy S15]

HardtopManual said:

The solution to Abu Dhabi being st is to remove it from the calendar.

This, or not having it as the last race. If Brazil had been the last race, I'd have felt very satisfied despite it not counting for the championship.

Anyway, we're counting our chickens here. It may yet be a great race.

[turbomoped]

The F1 season is book ended by rubbish races.
Australia you wonder why you were looking forward to the start and abu dhabi where you are glad its over.
Liberty need to take a look at these two feeble events and move them to a sleepy part of the season when everyone is on holiday.

[Mr Tidy]

Bullitt Five-Oh said:

Since Abu Dhabi is such a borefest especially when the season is done before F1 goes there I think playoffs could spice things up and keep the season alive until the last race. Nascar does it and even though people hated it when it launched and still hate it for producing champions who might have not become champions if the title was decided on points for whole season but it does keep the things alive throughout the year. We could even have split into regional groups racing in the US/European/Asian subdivisions who then meet and race together at the end of the main season. Any thoughts?

Yes, it's a terrible idea!

Reverse grids and winning ballast are 2 of the main reasons I hardly ever bother watching BTCC any more - the other 2 are Matt Neal and Jason Plato seeming to be unable to judge their braking points.

BSB also suffers from interference like that - about 2/3rds through the season the top 6 are already decided as being the top 6. It's a wonder the rest bother to turn up for the last races!

WSB have the messed up grids too - fortunately Jonathon Ray manages to win anyway.

We had that farce with double points at Abu Dhabi a few years ago which might have skewed the outcome, but thankfully didn't.

As for the timing of the Melbourne and Abu Dhabi races I think it's to do with the weather. Melbourne in our mid-summer could be miserably cold and wet, Abu Dhabi in our mid-summer would be a furnace!