Point of view: Kimi Raikkonen gets a good reason to increase the statistical lead - new rule allows old dirty tricks

Liberty Media wants to attract F1 drivers to drive flat out also lead, writes Janne Palomäki.Newspaper reporters Mikko Hyytiä and Janne Palomäki discussed to start through power relations.

Somehow this fits well with the F1-series image. Because it is extremely fast and at times also äkkiarvaamaton sport, can be the rules to change just a few days before the season opening race.

Formula one to turn the clock back 60 years ago, and give the race the fastest lap in the made extra point . The rule was used the first ten of the F1 during the season, and, for example, in 1958 the championship was solved by Mike Hawthorn's advantage just because he had driven two times more race fastest laps than Stirling Moss.

we Went to the FIA with through different ideas and solutions that could improve the show, and we felt that the point of the highest speed round of taking that direction, the Liberty Media athletic director Ross Brawn said in the announcement.

– How many times have we heard team radio, the driver will ask who has the fastest lap? Now from this point forward it is no longer just for glory and statistics, but we provide a concrete motivation, which makes the race of the final phase of the a lot more fascinating, Brawn continued.

the Point of the race the highest speed round were removed from the rules through the 1960s to the early. Now it's back, with the exception that it will be granted only if the driver already had your MM points (the top ten). Otherwise, naturally, there is a danger that the race for the extra point would be only the top ranked 11-20 with the street racers, who seek the final round of the new tyres from the pit.

Nykyautoilla race fastest lap so far away from the time-driving to the maximum speed that it is capable of easily, for example, F1 debutante Alexander Albon, if only in his Toro rosso into put new tires couple of the final round.

Rules clarifications the purpose is also provides the racing tip the driver for a small prize, so they would gas the bottom . F1 history is driven 997 races, and race the fastest lap is recorded in the GP winner no less than 366 times. Confusing a total of 36.7 per cent in the proportion is that in 2018 the first recorded race the fastest lap of just four and the year before, six times.

in Practice, therefore, the race in the top of the drive you are thinking now primarily on tire condition, fuel adequacy and the power unit of strain . When the win is on offer in addition to 25 points, is their certainly difficult to attract press to the gas to the bottom of just one bonus point.

the 1958 championship title by winning Hawthorn made history also because he was the first world championship won under the 30-year-old driver. It tells a harsh way, just how much species has evolved or at least changed – in those days .

the New rule interpretation in extra points are not allocated at all, if the fastest lap recorded in the top10:n outside the driver. Who seriously believes that this rule of interpretation to be used wrong, for example, so that the otherwise Lewis Hamilton going to the race the fastest lap in the dot disappears, when the # 13 to drive the Ferrari academy for Antonio giovinazzo to hit the new tires under it?

in Practice the fastest laps run always race to the end, when the gas load is as small as possible and the car respectively starts . At this stage a bonus point of interest to the different drivers in a different way depending on their difference from their closest rivals, and the possibility is still looking for new tires without losing the ranking of the track.

– Sometimes it is good to remind ourselves of his own tradition of our culture, so we can move on, Brawn decided.

the Finns this of course is perfectly suitable. After all, Kimi raikkonen, nykykuskeista most of the race fastest laps (a total of 46 ). Alfa Romeo -the veteran might get the bonus point to the good reason grow the statistics lead to

Liberty Media of course would like to see more real kilvanajoa also race the final stage. But as always a change of context only through the revealed rule of trickery of real impact.

Kimi Raikkonen leads nykykuskien statistics fastest race laps amount. JANNE PALOMÄKI