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Todt: Ecclestone must stop saying F1 is sh*t

FIA president Jean Todt has urged Bernie Ecclestone to stop criticising Formula 1, amid more bad mouthing from the self-styled supremo of the sport, Ecclestone has rung in another new season with a familiar round of criticism, after last year crudely describing the sport he runs as crap. Todt told Auto Bild Motorsport: 'Can you imagine someone going to see a new movie if the director said: My film is shit?' 'If you want to sell a product, criticism must be internal, not external. We have to represent a positive image of Formula 1 again,' said the Frenchman. So unlike Ecclestone, Todt hails F1's controversial yet cutting-edge ‘power units'. 'We have to get them cheaper and louder,'...
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