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Poll: Should IndyCar award double points at Indy 500 and Sonoma? (41 member(s) have cast votes)

Should IndyCar award double points at Indy 500 and Sonoma?

  1. Yes, I like the 2015 rule (1 votes [2.44%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 2.44%

  2. No, but I liked the 2014 rule (Indy 500, Pocono, Fontana) (23 votes [56.10%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 56.10%

  3. No, all races should be equal (16 votes [39.02%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 39.02%

  4. I'd like double points but with a different system to 2015 or 2014 (1 votes [2.44%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 2.44%

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#1 August

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 19:30

Once F1 got rid of the stupidity of the final race double points, IndyCar introduces them. OK, they had double points also in the last season's final race but all Triple Crown (500-mile) races had double points. Next year it will be different, the season will end on a road course at Sonoma with a normal race distance. Besides Sonoma, Indy 500 will award double points whereas the other 500-mile races won't.

 

I wish F1 had never introduced the double points, also because it seems IndyCar started doubling points just to follow F1. Even though I think the format was good last season. It was the longest races awarding double points. It's logical the most important race awarded the double points as well as the races of an equal distance. But the Sonoma double points are just as stupid as the Abu Dhabi double points, just because of the race's calendar slot. To make them more sensible, extend the race distance, something like 300mi/500km would sound about right. Or have a doubleheader with two races with normal points. Ain't gonna happen, though.

 

As an answer to the poll's question, I liked the last season's rule. It also increased the weight of oval races in the championship, I think ovals should make half of the season.



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#2 jonpollak

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 19:58

Really?
Honoring this with a thread are we?

Just go to the Indycar 2015 topic and vent there.
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#3 August

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 20:30

Really?
Honoring this with a thread are we?

Just go to the Indycar 2015 topic and vent there.
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A thread like this seems like a tradition.

 

Hopefully next year's edition will be "IndyCar gets rid of double points" and that will be the last edition.



#4 Victor_RO

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 21:52

I liked the 2014 system and I'm not ashamed of it. Handing out double points for special races (in terms of races that are far longer and far more of a challenge than regular races) is the only sensible way of actually handing out double points. Now they've just gone and messed it up.  :(  :down:

 

 

...although double points at Fontana did push Pagenaud down to 5th in the championship because of a rotten weekend...



#5 Risil

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 22:05

I don't understand why we need double points anywhere. If you've got a big race, the reward should be winning the big race.



#6 pacificquay

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 22:11

Double points for Indy makes sense. For Sonoma not.



#7 Muppetmad

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 22:29

Sonoma double points is a shame - it's typically a dull, dull race and double points won't help it.



#8 Rob

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 22:47

Double points at all the races please.



#9 BullHead

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 23:19

Oh dear, surely they witnessed the dislike vented in F1 over it, and the subsequent dropping of it.

#10 Imateria

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 23:26

Not a good move this, I'm of the opinion that just Indy should have double points as the triple crown didn't mean a whole lot to me, and Sonoma really shouldnt have it.



#11 Dmitriy_Guller

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 00:20

Two bad moves.  Putting a bad road course as a final race is bad enough, because Indycar road course are usually lottery cluster****s to some extent due to closed pits during yellows.  Fontana seemed like the perfect season finale venue.  And awarding double points to a bad race because it happened to be the final race of the season is repeating exactly the same mistake that Formula 1 made and was lucky to get away with.  I swear that every time Indycar takes two steps forward, it must take at least one step back.  Ugh.



#12 DanardiF1

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 01:07

For Indy it makes sense, just as it does for Le Mans... but Sonoma? Will the race be any longer, any more challenging?



#13 OvDrone

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 01:20

Abu Sonoma, Yas Seares Marina Point. With extra Will Power.



#14 pingu666

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 01:39

stupid.

i dont mind for indy so much, as its indy...



#15 SR388

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 01:47

IndyCar likes its gimmicks, so this is no surprise.

#16 maximilian

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 02:48

Yeah, they stuffed this one up.  The Triple Crown was great in 2014.  Boooooo!



#17 whitewaterMkII

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 02:51

points for single races, thank you, neither sonoma nor indy is twice as hard to win. If you are bent on handing out double points, I'd say do it in every race, but only for the guy that starts last.



#18 Indy1988

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 03:52

I also didn't mind the double points for the 500 mile races, but if they are only going to do it for one 500 miler and the season finale then it no longer makes any logical sense to do it. 



#19 pingu666

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 03:57

hmm you get more cars at indy, long race and the speed + line they take means its very easy to crash



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#20 jonpollak

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 04:30

Lol@1 vote for option 1&4.
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#21 Peat

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 06:20

I support double points for the Indy500, I 'didn't mind' double points for the other 500 milers so much. But double points for the finale AND at flipping Sonoma.....? Nope, Sorry Derrick, shiddy call.



#22 hittheapex

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 06:24

Not just F1 that's out of touch with around 90% of its fanbase then.



#23 Muppetmad

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 08:52

IndyCar likes its gimmicks, so this is no surprise.

F1 surely isn't any better these days though - at least IndyCar never entertained the idea of standing restarts and doesn't have DRS.


Edited by Muppetmad, 03 December 2014 - 08:52.


#24 P123

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 09:10

Sonoma!?  At least there was some justification for giving it to the 500 milers but I can't think of one good reason for having Sonoma as a double pointer.



#25 Imateria

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 15:40

Lol@1 vote for option 1&4.
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I seem to be that one vote for option 4, but plenty of others have expressed similar sentiment to me in the thread.