Due to the pressure exerted by the F1 teams, the governing body of Formula One has consented to cancel the immediate execution of its newly revised scoring system.
Last Friday, FOTA said that it had assembled to question the legality of the decision of the World Motor Sport Council. The revision in the scoring and the voluntary cap on budget for 2010 is seen as a political struggle within the F1 to determine the future of the sport. In trying to implement the Bernie Ecclestone’s ‘gold medals’- style scoring system, FIA seemed to have intentionally forgotten about a separate proposal by FOTA where the points difference between the first and second placers is simply raised from 2 points to 3.
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