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Originally Posted by astroron
Gary, why don't they just have 10 points for a win and progresivly down to 1 point for 10th place 
I cannot se the point of high numbers when it would be just as simple to do what I suggest. |
Hi Ron,
The problem with your simple system is that seems to buck the historical trend
of having more and more complex point scoring systems in F1.
See -
http://www.formula1.com/news/feature.../12/15343.html
Dare to predict that by 2025 it will be a binary exponential system, on the
rationale that gaining one place is twice as hard .. 512 for first, 256 for second,
then 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1
Ferrari will probably want a Fibonnaci series simply because Fibonacci was an Italian -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number