Luca di Montezemolo has made clear his opposition to the 2013 engine rules.<\/p>\n
With Bernie Ecclestone staunchly opposed to the end of the V8 era in exchange for small low-revving turbos, Williams chairman Adam Parr this week insisted that formula one must keep moving in the ‘greener’ direction.<\/p>\n
“The (V8) technology is dated, it’s not what’s going on out in the real world and I think it’s a major, major barrier to bringing in new partners and growing the sport,” Parr told Reuters.<\/p>\n
He sounded excited about the new direction for 2013, including much more powerful hybrid elements and the fact that the cars will run “on pure electric” when moving down the pitlane.<\/p>\n
Parr also said Ferrari president Montezemolo was once in favour of the new rules, but the Italian is now fiercely on F1 chief executive Ecclestone’s side of the argument.<\/p>\n
“We must not lose the DNA of formula one,” Italian Montezemolo told Auto Motor und Sport, scoffing at the fact F1 is moving to four-cylinders.<\/p>\n
“What’s next is one cylinder — we’re not building motorcycles.\u00a0 The real challenge is to make an eight or 12-cylinder engine economical,” he added.<\/p>\n
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