The Formula 1 Commission has elected to postpone its verdict on extending the existing structure for points-scoring positions next season to later this term.
Last week it emerged that Formula One Management (FOM), the FIA and the 10 F1 teams held talks about distributing points to the top 12 places from 2025.
But having discussed the topic, the F1 Commission has agreed more extensive evaluations were required with the view to a proposal being discussed in July.
The new format would see points attributed in the fashion of 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 and reward the lower-place outfits who struggle to break the top 10.
However, Alpine’s Esteban Ocon expressed last weekend in China that he would rather the lower-end teams step up their performance to challenge the top five.
“It’s putting a plaster on a big cut, let’s call it like this,” Ocon, who classified 11th in Shanghai, told Autosport. “It’s a way of helping the current situation, I think.
“It would definitely work because we would have been scoring points today. But I would prefer to be able to race at the front and to have every team closer.
“I think it is fair to say that it is a small gain on what we are trying to do: making all the cars closer.”
Meanwhile, the announcement that Australia will host the season-opening round in 2025 has placed doubts over whether Bahrain will continue to hold winter testing.
The F1 Commission has divulged that Formula One Management (FOM) will come together to present a proposal that the F1 Commission can discuss at a later date.
Elsewhere, the F1 Commission gave the green light for the introduction of rear-facing cameras on the cars from the 2024 Spanish Grand Prix onwards next month.
Several revisions to the Sporting and Financial Regulations were also made, although the contents of which from the F1 Commission’s meetings were not disclosed.
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