[Mathias]

On the double-points at the last race thing, I have two things to say:

1. I just can't understand why any race should have a greater impact on the outcome of the championship than any other, with a strong reason for this being that, as others have said, it puts more of an emphasis on elements that are more related to luck (e.g. accidents/failures) in that one race, which is not what racing should be all about.

2. Potentially more powerfully, if this is all about keeping interest in the championship going until the end of the season, what will the point be when the championship leader is already more than 75 points ahead of any rival before the penultimate race? (Like Vettel was this year.)

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.

Such changes - like Bernie's equally daft medals system - always focus the attention on the shallowness of racing only being about winning, which is something a lot of people, including drivers, say "blah blah blah if you've not won, you've lost blah blah blah" which ignores all the excitement in watching new drivers and new teams working their way up through the ranks. If you want to make racing interesting and exciting for the whole season, award more points further down the grid.