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Don't like ‘double points'? Turn your TV off

Apparently we’re not alone in our concern over Formula 1’s double-points nonsense for the final race in the 2014 season at Abu Dhabi. Messrs. Hope-Frost and Straw at AUTOSPORT caught up with Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey and he said: 'It's a personal view, but I'm not a fan of it at all,' Newey told AUTOSPORT. 'To me it just seems very artificial that third place [in Abu Dhabi] will now be worth more than first place at Monaco or another race.” Now, that may be his opinion but it most likely is the opinion of a majority of F1 fans that have sounded off with their dislike of the concept. The rule was approved but even F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone says he intended it to be...
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