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#7 Extra point for the fastest lap
One of the most significant changes in 2019 is the additional point up for grabs for the driver who records the fastest lap in the race. This means that a total of 21 extra points is up for grabs. This added incentive will make drivers more eager to try and set the fastest lap even if they don't have a chance to win the race. If this rule were in effect in 2008, Felipe Massa would have pipped Lewis Hamilton to the world title. This rule is not new to Formula One and it was in force back in the early days. It is after several decades that the rule has made a comeback. The surprise winner of the Australian Grand Prix - Valtteri Bottas made history by becoming the first F1 driver to grab 26 points when he also set the fastest lap of the race last week.
#6 Revamped grid penalty rules
From 2019, in case of multiples drivers handed a grid penalty, the starting order of the penalized driver would be decided by their qualifying order. In 2018, this was slightly different and more skewed towards the driver who would have left the pit-lane first on Friday's Free Practice 1. He would start ahead of the other drivers who were imposed a grid penalty. This made no sense as a grid penalty is a grid penalty and equating it with who left the pit-lane first was illogical.
