F1 to discuss new points structure as midfield teams lobby for change
“For those running in the midfield where it is very, very competitive at the🐼 moment, it enable🙈s them to score points."

Formula 1 𝓀drivers are set to meet to discuss a new points structure which would see the 11th and 12th placed drivers in a grand prix add to their tally.
Sky Sports commentator David Croft said during the F1 Chinese Grand Prix: “Next week, the Formula 1 teams will gather, virtually, to discuss a proposal for the future to hav﷽e points down to 12th place.
“Obviously it goes down to 10th, at the moment.
“There is a propo𝐆sal to make it points down to 12th, which I don’t disagree with at all.
“For those running in the midfield where💛 it is very, very competitive at the moment, it enable🥂s them to score points.
“It enables fans, I think, to differentiate why one team is ahead of another when they haven’t scored any poiꦰnts.”
But Crofty suggested 🎃an even greater change ꦏto the current system.
“I’d go one step further,” he said. “ꦅIf you finish a race, you score at least one point!
“I’d h♌ave points from first all the way down to 20th. If you finish, you get at least a point.
“Reward some of the overtaking!”
Nico Rosberg, cꦫommentating in Shanghai with Crofty, replied: “I like it the way it is…”
first reported the discussion whওich is set to take place between F1 teams, the FIA and F1 management.
The proposal ꦜis not to change the quantity of points awarded in the front-running positions.
Only P8 to P12 would receive a different total of points to the🧸 c🐼urrent rule.
The smaller teams on 🧔the F1 grid are behind this proposal af𒁃ter lobbying for a change which they claim would benefit the sport as a whole.
The proposal that F1 teams will discuss | ||
Drivers' finishing position | Points currently awarded | The new proposal |
1 | 25 | 25 |
2 | 18 | 18 |
3 | 15 | 15 |
4 | 12 | 12 |
5 | 10 | 10 |
6 | 8 | 8 |
7 | 6 | 6 |
8 | 4 | 5 |
9 | 2 | 4 |
10 | 1 | 3 |
11 | 0 | 2 |
12 | 0 | 1 |
Fastest lap | 1 | 1 |

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to f𝔉ootball, to F1.