World Farcical One Championship

The FIA has made a huge mistake.

From the 2009 season on, the Formula One World Champion will be decided by the number of wins a driver has in a season, while the old point-scoring system will still be used to decide the rest of the standings.

In other words, Nick Heidfeld can forget his dream of becoming a World Champion.

It just doesn't make any sense.

When I learned of it this morning, I thought it was just another whimsical recommendation by the likes of Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley. But to my horror, I soon realised that it IS the final decision.

It's been commonly accepted for ages that the driver who has accumulated the most number of points will be crowned the World Champion. Yet under the new scoring system, some ridiculous scenarios might happen, including:

- Driver A has won the first 9 races of a 17-race reason. He can go home, grab some popcorn and watch the remaining 8 races on TV and still be crowned the World Champion.

- Driver B only enters the races he is confident of winning. Sure enough, he wins all four races he's entered, and then he can go home, grab some popcorn and watch the remaining 13 races on TV and still be crowned the World Champion.

In both scenarios, spectators and TV audience will definitely lose interest, as the suspense of "Who's going to be the World Champion" is long gone.

- A consistent Driver C (most likely Heidfeld) finishes all 17 races in second place, but never manages to win any of them. Still, Driver D, who has been erratic all seasons, somehow manages to win a couple of races with a stroke of luck, and be crowned the World Champion.

- Driver D, who has World Champion ambition, will choose to retire his perfectly-fine car when he knows he's not going to win the race, with the hope of getting a new and better engine, thereby exploiting a loophole under the current engine rule.

I know these are all extreme cases, but these are all possible.

My hope is that one or more of the above will happen this season, which will force the FIA to shelf this stupid decision.