{"id":20048,"date":"2013-11-27T07:36:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20048"},"modified":"2013-11-27T07:36:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:36:27","slug":"ecclestone-still-thinks-v6-switch-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-still-thinks-v6-switch-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone still thinks V6 switch bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s V8 engines have already roared for the last time, but Bernie Ecclestone still thinks moving to turbo V6s next year is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Bernie-Ecclestone-3.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Asked by the Spanish sports newspaper Marca if he thinks the radical rules shift for 2014 was necessary, the F1 chief executive answered: &#8220;No I don&#8217;t, but let&#8217;s wait and see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone, 83, also answered &#8220;yes&#8221; when asked if he thinks forcing teams to spend extra in already tight economic conditions is a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is a mistake, but I don&#8217;t think it is going to change formula one,&#8221; he insisted.\u00a0 &#8220;We have changed the rules many times and it has always been the same sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Ecclestone admitted he is still worried about the milder sound of the new turbo engines.\u00a0 &#8220;What we had is good, everyone likes it, so why change it?&#8221; he wondered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was thought that, if we had smaller engines, more manufacturers would be attracted to formula one.\u00a0 But nobody else seems to be coming,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ecclestone did not confirm reports that Korea and New Jersey will not be on next year&#8217;s F1 calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the reports, he answered: &#8220;We will not have Mexico and India next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s V8 engines have already roared for the last time, but Bernie Ecclestone still thinks moving to turbo V6s next year is a bad idea. Asked by the Spanish sports newspaper Marca if he thinks the radical rules shift for 2014 was necessary, the F1 chief executive answered: &#8220;No I don&#8217;t, but let&#8217;s wait and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20049,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048\/revisions\/20049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}