Bernie Ecclestone has given the go-ahead to the Sepang organisers wanting to move the start time of the 2010 race forward by an hour.
The organisers of the Malaysian Grand Prix have announced that next year's race will start an hour earlier after this year's event was washed out.
Organisers of the Malaysian GP have insisted the start time of next year's race should be brought back to 3pm to avoid the chaos that resulted in the shortening of the 2009 event.
Following visibility problems in the opening two races of the season Formula One drivers are set push for earlier starting times next year.
Next year's Malaysian GP could have an earlier start time after Sunday's debacle saw the race abandoned as the rain that "usually" comes down did.
Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali admits it is 'unacceptable' after the Scuderia left yet another race-track without a single World Championship point - and only themselves to blame.
Unsurprisingly, the three teams whose rear diffusers have caused a storm in recent weeks dominated the fastest lap times during the Malaysian GP.
Timo Glock rates his third-placed finish in Sunday's rain-soaked Malaysian GP as the "best" he could "ever do".
Ferrari, Toro Rosso, Renault and Force India all left the Sepang circuit with nothing but the probably on-set of a cold.
Jenson Button made it two-from-two for Brawn GP as he clinched the victory in a rain-shortened Malaysia GP ahead of Nick Heidfeld and Timo Glock.
F1 drivers Rubens Barrichello and Lewis Hamilton have backed FIA race director Charlie Whiting's decision not to restart the Malaysian GP.
There were points in the rain-shortened Malaysian GP for Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
Nick Heidfeld was one of the drivers who benefited from the tyre chaos in the final few laps of the Malaysian GP, which ultimately resulted in him bagging a podium finish.
Even Malaysian GP winner Jenson Button concedes Sunday's rain-abandoned race was rather "crazy" in the final few laps.
Heavy downpour just after the halfway stage of the Malaysian GP has caused the grand prix to be suspended.