Former team owner Eddie Jordan has strongly criticized FOM boss Bernie Ecclestone’s proposal to award the top three finishing drivers in the 2009 Formula One world championship season with gold silver and bronze medals rather than points, the Irishman strongly advocating for the current points system to remain in play.

"The focus of everyone in formula one at the moment must be on the current situation with costs and cost-cutting, and nothing else. The rest is just dressing it up,” he told the BBC. “The points are necessary. I was one of the team principals in the team principals' meetings who advocated that the points should go down to eighth place, because one point to a team down there is as important as a win is to the likes of McLaren and Ferrari, and we must never forget that. I can promise you, having been in that position, two points against no points is a huge difference."