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[IceManpjn]

I think Lewis and Jenson's words sum things up pretty well. With a medal system, all we need is for some team to do well enough early on and it wouldn't matter what happened through the remainder of the season. Looking to 2009 as an example, Button finished first in six of the first seven races, but after that never had another first for the remainder of the year and only two more podiums, but his championship win would have been pretty much locked prior to the half-way point of the season and he could have just stayed at home for the last half and still won the championship.

I don't personally feel that our current points system is broken anyway, but I definitely disagree with this whole gold medal idea. Does this guy just throw together random words and see what sorts of ideas they form sort of like F1 ad-libs, post them onto a board and then toss darts at them to determine which to run with? "Hmm..., we've got 'winner', 'medal', 'number', 'gold', and 'determine'. We can arrange these as 'winner determine number gold medal'. Ahah! The winner can be determined by the number of gold medals! I'm friggin' brilliant!"

[Fred_C_Dobbs]

In his twilight years, Il Commendatore's mental acumen waned and Ferrari suffered for it (until he assumed room temperature).

In his prime, Bernie was not the match for Enzo Ferrari and the FIA will be much the better off once he has shuffled off his mortal coil.

[texasmr2]

They should try it for atleast one season .

[Jensonb]

They should try it for atleast one season .

No, no they shouldn't.

[texasmr2]

Yet wouldn't it be interesting to see how the WDC would playout?

[racechick]

Its playing out great as it is.

[texasmr2]

Its playing out great as it is.

Agreed but most cry for changes and those who have cried the most for change are the least willing to embrace it or even the thought of it if it does not suit their personal agenda.

[myownalias]

In one way, the medals system could be a massive cost cutter... after 10 races; Alonso/Hamilton/Button/Vettel/Webber (delete as applicable) have won 10 golds; oh well might as well pack up and go home, the remaining nine races have been cancelled due to lack of interest; look how much money the teams would save?!?!

[racechick]

In one way, the medals system could be a massive cost cutter... after 10 races; Alonso/Hamilton/Button/Vettel/Webber (delete as applicable) have won 10 golds; oh well might as well pack up and go home, the remaining nine races have been cancelled due to lack of interest; look how much money the teams would save?!?!

[What's Burning?]

What is really the purpose of this? So you award medals, I'll assume gold, silver, bronze for the podium and nothing else.

At the end of the year you count up the golds and whomever has the most wins, if it's a tie, whomever has the most silvers, and so on.

What is the point for the other 7 or 8 non podium contender teams to race if that's the case? At least with a points system the competition extends much deeper in the grid and will reward consistency. If you have a driver that finishes 4th every race on the calendar, there's a good likelihood that they'd win the WDC at the end of the year. Under the medal proposal they'd have nothing more to show for their consistency than the poorest performing driver on the grid.