{"id":21401,"date":"2014-03-28T07:13:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21401"},"modified":"2014-03-28T07:13:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:13:28","slug":"ecclestone-admits-engines-louder-than-he-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-admits-engines-louder-than-he-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone admits engines louder than he thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Ecclestone admitted on Friday that F1’s new-generation cars are actually louder than he first thought.<\/p>\n

\"Bernie-Ecclestone-3\"The F1 chief executive did not attend any of the pre-season tests or the season opening Australian grand prix, where a big controversy about the milder tones of the turbo V6 engines kicked off.<\/p>\n

“It sounds terrible on the TV,” Ecclestone told Britain’s Sky Sports in the Sepang pitlane during the second practice session on Friday.<\/p>\n

He was standing with Ong Beng Seng, the Singaporean magnate who is a leading figure in the city-state’s highly-popular night race.<\/p>\n

“Mr Ong was complaining about the noise,” Ecclestone revealed, referring to the Singapore grand prix chief.<\/p>\n

“We were just saying, I think it’s a little louder than we thought.\u00a0 If we could get it up a little bit more than this, then it would be alright,” he added.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Australian promoter Ron Walker’s harsh critique, Ecclestone said on Friday that “all the promoters” are also complaining to him.<\/p>\n

“We will have to have a reduction in fees!” Mr Ong laughed.<\/p>\n

More seriously, however, Ong revealed that Ecclestone met with a Singaporean government minister on Thursday, because “We are a city race, and we must have the ‘buzz’ with the noise.”<\/p>\n

83-year-old Ecclestone, however, suggested he was somewhat relieved to have actually heard the turbo V6s in action for the first time on Friday.<\/p>\n

“People said you couldn’t hear anything, (but) it’s not true,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Bernie Ecclestone admitted on Friday that F1’s new-generation cars are actually louder than he first thought. The F1 chief executive did not attend any of the pre-season tests or the season opening Australian grand prix, where a big controversy about the milder tones of the turbo V6 engines kicked off. “It sounds terrible on the …<\/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":[59,5262,5340,4846,1160,2130],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401"}],"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=21401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21402,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401\/revisions\/21402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}