F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is considering creating artificial rain during races to spice up the sport.

With overtaking becoming increasingly difficult in dry conditions, more and more people are looking to the weather gods to intervene with a bit of rain. In 2010, most of the on-track excitement was caused by some heavy downpours.

Ecclestone has taken note of this and believes he has come up with a cunning plan.

"Overtaking is almost impossible because in the dry there is only one line good for maximum speed because of the rubber on the track," he told the official Formula One website. "You have a completely different picture when it is wet. We always had the most exciting races in the wet so let's think of making rain...

He added: "There are race tracks that you can make artificially wet and it would be easy to have such systems at a number of tracks. Why not let it 'rain' in the middle of a race? For 20 minutes or the last ten laps? Maybe with a two-minute warning ahead of it. Suspense would be guaranteed and it would be the same for all."

Another one of Ecclestone's famous (or is that infamous) proposals is the medal system. His plan, which would see Drivers' Championship decided on medals rather than the current points system, was suppose to be introduced in 2009 but teams rejected the idea.

Ecclestone, though, insists the idea is not dead in the water.

"I stick to it - let's have medals instead of points," he said. "Drivers want to win and they are not racing for second, third or fourth place. So let's have a system where wins count.

"Last season it would have worked pretty well. [Sebastian] Vettel and [Fernando] Alonso would have been even after the last race with five gold medals each, and the same number of silver and bronze medals. Vettel would have won the World Championship because he had more fourth places... I call that a thriller!

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Ha Ha! I chose against posting this because it enraged me.

 

??? ridic

 

I vote for snow! It would be even more exciting....

 

I lol'ed when I read it earlier and figured I should post it so everyone else can have a laugh at the sheer craziness of it.

 

As Chris just said "Why not put random midgets out on the track?"

Bernie is not money stupid, but is definitely idea stupid.

 

Has Charlie been sharing the rock with Bernie?

 

Get in his brain and let it ride then unplug it. He is an F18 bro.

 

no because this idea is clearly not WINNING lol

 

Must've gotten the idea from these guys: