Malaysian GP to start earlier, at 4pm
Next year's Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang will start an hour earlier than this year. This year's April event was stopped before the half race mark after it got hit by a major rain shower and could not be restarted before dark.
"We are going to run an hour earlier," Ecclestone said in an interview with 'Today'.
This year also marked a start time change for the Australian Grand Prix, as Ecclestone pushed to move the races later to help boost European audience.
"With Australia we had a twilight race, so it was in Malaysia, but maybe we went a little late there and managed to find a good way to catch the rain. But I think in general that is what we will be doing now; it is good for the promoters and the events to have it in the evening rather than during the day."
