{"id":20916,"date":"2014-02-05T07:24:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20916"},"modified":"2014-02-05T07:24:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:24:52","slug":"contradictory-ecclestone-says-new-rules-timely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/contradictory-ecclestone-says-new-rules-timely\/","title":{"rendered":"Contradictory Ecclestone says new rules &#8216;timely&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on the forum, Bernie Ecclestone has contradictory views about F1&#8217;s new V6-powered era.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the specialist press, the F1 chief executive slammed the revolutionary new rules, milder engine tones and widespread technical failures at the Jerez test as &#8220;a total farce&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole thing with the new engines is totally absurd,&#8221; the 83-year-old Briton added.<\/p>\n<p>But in a vastly different forum, Ecclestone also has a vastly different opinion.<\/p>\n<p>In an official report revealing a fall in F1&#8217;s global television audience last year, he hailed the incoming new era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is timely developments like these that keep formula one at the forefront of sustainable and relevant technology,&#8221; the report quoted Ecclestone as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing I am sure of is that this coming season will not only offer a heightened level of unpredictability but renewed excitement and fierce competition,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on the forum, Bernie Ecclestone has contradictory views about F1&#8217;s new V6-powered era. Speaking to the specialist press, the F1 chief executive slammed the revolutionary new rules, milder engine tones and widespread technical failures at the Jerez test as &#8220;a total farce&#8221;. &#8220;The whole thing with the new engines is totally absurd,&#8221; the 83-year-old &#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\/20916"}],"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=20916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20917,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916\/revisions\/20917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}