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Ecclestone: It's an engineers' championship

Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley agree that today's F1 is about the engineers more than drivers. In a rare joint interview, Ecclestone and close friend, and former FIA president, Mosley, admit that F1 has lost its way and needs a radical overhaul. At one point, when interviewer Volker Gruber mentions 55-place grid penalties for Fernando Alonso, Mosley laughs, clearly agreeing at the nonsense of it all. 'The people from Honda spoke to me at the weekend,' says Ecclestone, 'they said, 'we're trying another engine', because they can change as many engines as they like, they said 'we can't go any further back on the grid''. Never a fan of the new hybrid formula, Ecclestone, when asked why the...
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