The details of the new running order decider have not been released, but it is hoped that the new system would cut out the use of 'tactics', used to manipulate the current system of whoever finished the day first, starts first on the next day.
Tactics have become a real problem since the abolition of the old system, which entailed that the top 14 drivers would be reversed at the end of every day, at the end of 2007. The problems came to a head in Turkey 2008 when Ford used tactics to their fullest advantage to score a 1-2 finish. The event left Sebastian Loeb, who was demoted to third because of the incident, not impressed with the use of tactics. It also happened in Jordan 2010, when teams told their drivers to drop up to nine minutes, in one case, in an attempt to give their team-mate the advantage.
WRC manager Michele Mouton has said that any new proposal would need to be thoroughly investigated before they can be implemented: "We need to look at this very thoroughly before we can come up with some proposals for changing the regulations. We've already been studying this solution for quite a while and one of the important things is where you draw the line of how many drivers it should apply to."
Any proposed ideas need to have the unanimous support from all the competing teams. Mouton says that something could be brought it before the season close, if everyone agreed, but some have already said they don't agree.
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