Formula One looks set to award a point for the fastest lap this season, pending approval from the relevant parts of the sport's governance. It might seem like a new invention to spice up the racing, but it's actually an idea ditched 60 years ago...
An award for setting the fastest lap would revive a points structure abandoned at the end of 1959. The precise reason why the system was dropped has never been fully explained. A reasonable suggestion would be that the awarding of a single point for each fastest race lap actually made little or no difference to the outcome of the first ten world championships.