I am surprised no one has yet to congratulate Scott Dixon & Ganassi for yet another IndyCar title on our forum. It was Montoya & Penske's to give away and subsequently, they managed to do so. Of course, the "double points" gimmick sure played into the result but everyone knew the format going into Sonoma.

A little talk pre-race about driver safety on NBCSN was done. No matter what side of this topic you are on (I do not wish to rehash it) it will be interesting to see what done or not done in 2016.

Nonetheless, congrats to Scott Dixon on his title.

It was good finish, and remember too that Indy is double points and I believe that removing both double point shows wouldn't change Dixon as winning the Championship.
I'd rather see the 500 milers as double points and not a road race.

Juan wins by 4 without both double point races

There are two options. First, all races have same point structure. Or second option, multi-tier point system. If they want to "juice up" the points battle assign points by the length of the race. Start with 2 points per mile for the winner, example winner of a 500 mile race gets 1000 points, winner of a 300 mile race gets 600 points and so forth. For the rest of the finishers you can assign a 5 point reduction for each place lower. Example, 10th in a 500 miler would get 955, 10th in 300 miler would get 555. Another way would be to assign a drop by percentage of race distance. Winner 2 points per mile, 2nd 1.8, third 1.6 and so forth. There would be a problem that you will run out of points before you get to the end of the field, but it would keep badly damaged cars off the track when they have no chance of scoring points. I am sure USAC used some sort of this before, that is why the Midget champion scored so few points while running 40 races a season while the Championship cars had much higher point totals with far fewer races. I know they were trying to keep the points race alive through the whole year but you don't need "gimmicks" when the racing is good. See NASCAR and the "Chase"

Dixon has relativly quietly become one of the best ever!