Jordan Supports Ecclestone's Ballast Idea

Team boss Eddie Jordan has shown his support for Bernie Ecclestone's idea to introduce measures aimed at making Grand Prix racing more exciting.

The proposals include handicapping by adding a kilogram of weight to a car for every point once a driver had passed a set number of points ahead of the rest of the field. Each kilogram would slow a car down by an estimated three-hundredths of a second per lap.

The weight suggestion drew immediate approval from team boss Jordan.

"I think it is an excellent, proven, guaranteed way of levelling out the field," the Irishman told BBC radio today. "One of the reasons that Bernie Ecclestone has headlined the weight penalty is that it is very easy to put in place and manage and have regulations controlling it."

Ecclestone's suggestions are expected to be discussed with all Formula One team bosses this month, and Jordan has predicted that it will be hard to get all his colleagues to agree to the introduction of the proposed new rules.

"The teams would never agree to it en masse and so he has to be quite tough and Draconian and put in something that he firmly believes will put F1 back to the footing it had," he added.