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F1: F1 drops point for fastest lap

Five years after it was introduced, F1 is to scrap the awarding of a point to the driver who posts the fastest lap of the race. The move comes weeks after Daniel Ricciardo - in his final outing for RB - posted the fastest lap in Singapore, thereby depriving McLaren's Lando Norris who is battling Max Verstappen for the title in the Faenza-based outfit's sister team. Finishing outside the leading ten finishers Ricciardo didn't receive the point for the fastest lap, the whole point being - if you'll forgive the pun - that neither did Norris. The decision, which comes into effect next season, having first been introduced five years ago, was one of several 'minor' changes to the 2024 and 2025...
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