Formula PlayStation

Awesome news from the World of F1, where ahead of the season's pipe-opener, Williams co-owner and former chief designer Patrick Head has come up with a novel suggestion to even the playing field between the leading teams and the rest of the chasing pack.

His answer? Easy, start the race in reverse order, with the championship leaders starting at the back of the grid and having to pass the other teams on their way to the chequered flag. It’s a novel suggestion and certainly not without its merits, meaning we’d get a wealth of overtaking and potentially quite huge amounts of carnage (which let’s face it would certainly make Monte Carlo a blast watching the McLarens and Ferraris desperately trying to get past a super slow Super Aguri).

Genius or rubbish? it’s often such a thin line that decides...

Elsewhere we learn that F1 cars are going to have a special boost button this season, which will give the motor an extra bit of oomph for rapid overtaking manoeuvres. Frankly we thought Alain Prost was exaggerating recently when he likened current Formula One to ‘playing on a PlayStation’, but a boost button on an F1 car is an idea nicked straight off the PlayStation generation.

What next? DualShock 3’s instead of steering wheels? Kimi and Lewis showing off their 'mad drivin' skilz' and trash talking each across Xbox Live? Perhaps they should dispense with the whole global F1 circus and have the championship played across the PlayStation Network?

It’d certainly save on the carbon offsetting.