Clearly, like most of us, no fan of double points, Lewis Hamilton admits that losing the title due to the Bernie Ecclestone inspired gimmick would be awful.

In fact, Ecclestone wanted double points for the final three races of the season, a move which if approved, could have turned the entire season on its head. Instead the supremo had to make do with double points for the season finale in Abu Dhabi.

Pitpass has yet to hear of anyone in favour of the idea, most fearing a title won courtesy of double points would make it almost worthless. But what about losing the title under double points.

"I think the question is 'what is fair?'," said Lewis Hamilton ahead of the United States Grand Prix weekend. "This is the rule that they have brought in for the first time; do I really agree with it? I don't know if any of us agree with it or do not agree with it, but it is the way it is and you just have to deal with it and just hope for the best really.

"It would suck if that was the case... big time," he replied when asked how he would feel if he lost the title in such circumstances, "but I'm not even going to put that negative energy out there. I'm just going to try and do the best job I can with the car that I have and what will be will be, I guess.

"For the future, I wouldn't perhaps advise it for the following years but..." he added, echoing the fears of so many of us.

Asked where he feels his biggest threat comes from, teammate Nico Rosberg or Mercedes worrying reliability, he admitted: "I don't know, I think they are both relatively decent threats. But the guys have worked very hard to eradicate those through the year so I hope that we can all go through these next races together as a tea, without any of those issues."

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1. Posted by karel, 03/11/2014 7:10

"why, it's already aranged he will be champion "

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2. Posted by Kkiirmki, 31/10/2014 18:34

"Rosberg loves double points for the final race, because he's behind in the championship standings. Hamilton hates the double points for the final race, because he's ahead in the championship standings.

I wonder what their thoughts would be if the (standings) situation was reversed?"

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3. Posted by TokyoAussie, 31/10/2014 16:23

"Hamilton thinks what? Well, I never...

Obviously he and Rosberg both, and everyone else on the planet bar Bernie, have thought that from day 1. Not news."

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4. Posted by my tyres are going off, 31/10/2014 14:36

"EJ let slip an interesting theory on this one. Origional plan for 2014 was for an extra race so in order to keep total number of points avaialble to teams for prize money double points was born. So maybe in the dark smoke filled rooms some deals were done that are not being confessed to now. "

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5. Posted by MrShadow, 31/10/2014 14:29

"It does not matter if it are single or double points. Losing the lead of the championship in the last race will always suck, ask Felipe Massa."

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6. Posted by Hondawho?, 31/10/2014 12:26

""Suck", suck what? All brass and no class (apart from his racing) sums Hamilton up."

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7. Posted by Vladimir, 31/10/2014 11:33

"Just think...what if we went into the final race without the driver's championship being won and we get to see another one of those Prost-Senna crashes that happened on purpose, to take the other guy out so that he won't finish ahead in the points. Does Bernie have a card up his sleeve to deal with that? For the future, let's dump the double points fiasco....and while we're at it, perhaps we should also dump Bernie. His thoughts and ideas and control over the sport are simply ruining it."

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