Anger as FIA announce double points for Abu Dhabi season finale to spice up show 10 December, 2013 Abu Dhabi GP takes on major significance as from 2014 Formula 1 is to award double points for the last race of the season in a controversial attempt to keep championships undecided to the very end after four years of Red Bull domination. The novelty, immediately dismissed by some angry fans as a needless gimmick, was the most eye-catching of several rule changes announced by the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) on Monday. The FIA said double points would ‘maximise focus on the championship until the end of the campaign' and had been unanimously approved at a meeting...
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