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[Jabberwocky]

I think it would be cool if a constructor got 1 point for 1 of their cars finishing the race, counting only towards the constructors championship.

This would provide some sort of competition between the new teams, as getting both cars come is quite an accomplishment, that is right now going unrewarded

But the existing teams would not get any recognition for getting both cars home.

[McLaren]

I disagree. End of.

i agree with your disagreement.

So do I

[Hansy]

I think it would be cool if a constructor got 1 point for 1 of their cars finishing the race, counting only towards the constructors championship.

This would provide some sort of competition between the new teams, as getting both cars come is quite an accomplishment, that is right now going unrewarded

But the existing teams would not get any recognition for getting both cars home.

They would get 2 points

[suitcase]

I wouldn't mind seeing minor points for grid positions and fastest laps ans most laps led etc, or minor points for finishing ahead of your grid spot and loss of points for finishing behind it.

I agree
As for the OP's idea, I like that, too.

[vaptin]

Gotta say, I quite like the idea of points based on how big the gaps are at the end of the race, would reward stronger wins more. But overall, I'm not sure it'd work out in terms of producing an exciting championship.

[Gaz]

I wouldn't mind seeing minor points for grid positions and fastest laps ans most laps led etc, or minor points for finishing ahead of your grid spot and loss of points for finishing behind it.

I agree
As for the OP's idea, I like that, too.

Safty Car.

Enough said.

[Matkins]

Safty Car.

Enough said.

I take it you're saying the deployment of the safety car would reduce all gaps built up between the cars and taint the points results. Thats quite true, but the safety car already does taint the points results, just ask Renault.

[cap-dude]

The probelm is we aren't used to it.

It's weird. Last year we knew, 10 points for 1st, 8 points 2nd. The winner made up 2 points on second place. We knew if someone was 10 points behind in the championship, they needed a win to make up the gap.

But now we can't really make a quick analaysis in our heads. I agree, personally I don't like it so far. It makes the championship very hard to follow. But next hopefully things will be better.

[darwin dali]

I wouldn't mind seeing minor points for grid positions and fastest laps ans most laps led etc, or minor points for finishing ahead of your grid spot and loss of points for finishing behind it.

I agree
As for the OP's idea, I like that, too.

Safty Car.

Enough said.

And if we have a runaway winner with a margin of >50 seconds (happened in the past and not too rarely), then nobody else gets any points...

[Hammer278]

Could you imagine a dominant team, aka Ferrari 2002? You'll see 3 or 4 of the smaller teams packing up by mid season as they can forget about chances of any points at all.

[stonemonkey]

I still don't like the new points system, the value of a world Championship point has been depreciated.

This just occurred to me the other day, it won't have the same meaning for a driver to join the 500 point club.

However, I do quite like the new points system and how it's going this year. It's close between several drivers but the results from one race can turn things upsidedown and hopefully it'll be like that for a bit more of the season.

[oaba09]

IMO all the places should receive points(except for the last place) in order to make the races more interesting...This way, teams in the lower half of the standings will still have a good reason to continue racing competitively........

[billindenver]

The current system for awarding driver points in F1 is so unimaginative and uncompetative my grandmother could arrange better for her retirement home zimmer racing. In my opinion a far more interesting system would be based on time with for example: 50pts awarded for 1st place followed by a loss of 1pt per secound of time counting down from 50secs to Zero thereby if the 2nd place driver finished 7secs behind the winner he would recieve 43pts with points awarded to all who finish within the 50secs, this would result in drivers also racing the clock and not just settling for a safe guaranteed amount of points surely this would lead to more exciting racing and bring back more tyre stop strategy.

Your first and only post and you waste it with a suggestion like this one.

[texasmr2]

[IceManpjn]

The current system for awarding driver points in F1 is so unimaginative and uncompetative my grandmother could arrange better for her retirement home zimmer racing. In my opinion a far more interesting system would be based on time with for example: 50pts awarded for 1st place followed by a loss of 1pt per secound of time counting down from 50secs to Zero thereby if the 2nd place driver finished 7secs behind the winner he would recieve 43pts with points awarded to all who finish within the 50secs, this would result in drivers also racing the clock and not just settling for a safe guaranteed amount of points surely this would lead to more exciting racing and bring back more tyre stop strategy.

If we had such a points system in place this year, here would be the results from the race in Turkey:
Lewis Hamilton - 50 points
Jenson Button - 47 points
Mark Webber - 26 points
Michael Schumacher - 19 points
Nico Rosberg - 18 points
Robert Kubica - 17 points
Felipe Massa - 13 points
Fernando Alonso - 3 points
Adrian Sutil - 1 point
everyone else - 0 points

Hamilton and Button would have cleaned up, Webber would have had about half Hamilton's points, and the rest of the field wouldn't have much to show for the race. Whether this is better or worse I will leave up to you. Giving more points for finishing closer to the guys in the front wouldn't have mattered, however, since the field was simply so far off the pace of the McLarens and Red Bulls. Four cars were leading the race by such a huge margin that they could have all went in for an extra pit stop and still came back out ahead of the rest of the field. Giving the other twenty cars more points for finishing closer to the lead cars wouldn't have given their cars or their drivers any more ability to actually do so. If anything, penalizing the rest of the field for being so far off their pace may take away from the competitiveness, at least in terms of the points race.

As for being unimaginative, having a basic scale of points per position is standard in motorsports. Off the top of my head I cannot think of any that award points based on time behind the leader. I'd say it's pretty typical to have x-amount of points for first, y-amount for second, z-amount for third, and so on. If this is unimaginative, this isn't then just a criticism of F1 but of basically all motorsports.