A number of F1's bosses have said that they feel that the sport need to take more time to assess the overall situation before making any rule changes to help improve the show, after a far more exciting race in Australia.
The dull race in Bahrain that opened the season was met with a wave of plans and proposals to help 'spice up' the on-track show in 2010. McLaren boss and FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh suggested last weekend that the teams were even considering reverse grids and success ballast as a way to foist overtaking onto the sport.
But even though the action in Australia was almost entirely thanks to a light rain shower before the start, that reduced grip levels and allowed some genuine side-by-side battles in the opening stages.
Nevertheless, the team bosses are happy that the Australian race proved that Bahrain was not necessarily the standard for the season ahead, and although a FOTA meeting is planned on Friday in Malaysia to discuss potential future regulations, but a number of probably-influential figures have said that there will likely be no knee-jerk rule changes for 2010, with more time needed to assess the situation in the sport this year.
"I don't think [Australia] was a one-off," Whitmarsh said ahead of Friday's meeting, speaking of the one-off thrills of the Melbourne race, "In any season, if you throw safety cars, rain and difficult circumstances into any event, they are always great.
"In Bahrain, we didn't think it was such an exciting start to the year, but we have demonstrated today that in the right circumstances we can do it. For anyone watching, it must have been tremendously exciting."
Red Bull boss Christian Horner admitted that the weagther played a part in the Melbourne action, but said that the Australian race proved that the teams would need to take time over deciding if rule changes were needed.
"It is interesting because I think today the weather had a little bit of a factor in there – a bit of a damp track at the beginning of the race. It is not something I would like at every grand prix," Horner argued.
"Melbourne always produces an interesting race and it has done exactly that today. I think it would be wrong to knee jerk into rules changes based on what we've seen in two grands prix. Today was an entertaining race for F1, it was pretty unpredictable."
Meanwhile, Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali smugly reminded everyone that he had told everyone to calm down and wait for a bit before making changes after Bahrain, though he admitted that a dull Malaysia race this weekend could re-open the overtaking debate.
"After Bahrain, I said let's cool down and wait until later in the season," Domenicali beamed, "It is always wrong when you have an emotion inside. You do the summary at the end of all the things - not during the season.
"Maybe we will have another boring race in Malaysia and then we will start again discussing it. All the FOTA teams need to address the real issue, which is having cars perform less efficiently in the wake.
"So in order to have the technical solution of a problem – because today we saw something that was not connected to the technicality of the car, it was connected to the situation that arose - we need to focus on what we have to do, which is that the car should be less efficient."
The Friday FOTA meeting will still go ahead, and will look in particular at ideas for the 2011 season, with the possibility of revisiting the KERS farce allegedly one of the options on the table.
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