{"id":3324,"date":"2010-03-16T07:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2010-03-16T07:25:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:25:52","slug":"fota-to-discuss-f1-bore-saga-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fota-to-discuss-f1-bore-saga-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTA to discuss ‘F1 bore’ saga on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
A meeting of the F1 teams association FOTA is expected to discuss the issue of boring races during a conference on Tuesday, according to Switzerland’s Motorsport Aktuell.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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The saga in the wake of Sunday’s 2010 opener, with the new refuelling ban blamed for the lack of on-track action, has some figures calling for the sport to react immediately.<\/p>\n

F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone wants to wait three more races before deciding whether to make any changes.<\/p>\n

“There is no panic, no crisis for F1,” he is quoted as saying by the Times.<\/p>\n

He said he has already had a meeting with the teams.<\/p>\n

“I tried to explain to them what our business is about — racing and entertaining the public, not about playing with computers and going fast over one lap.<\/p>\n

“The problem is that you cannot really have teams in any shape or form having a part in the sporting or technical regulations.\u00a0 You cannot have the inmates writing the regulations,” said Ecclestone.<\/p>\n

He proposes that independent engineers write the rules in future, but 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve is urging caution rather than knee-jerk panic.<\/p>\n

“The rules are fine,” said the French Canadian.\u00a0 “One race doesn’t mean anything.\u00a0 The worst thing would be for sudden changes before everybody is sure what they want.”<\/p>\n

Lotus technical boss Mike Gascoyne, and former GP winner Gerhard Berger, agree.<\/p>\n

“What we don’t need right now is a knee-jerk reaction.\u00a0 Whatever happens, we must be sure that any changes improve the show,” said Gascoyne.<\/p>\n

Berger said: “It (Bahrain) was boring but it was the first race and it’s too early to make a verdict.\u00a0 I think it will work out.”<\/p>\n

Sir Frank Williams told France’s Auto Hebdo that not only the rules and the cars are to blame.<\/p>\n

“There is no magic formula one, but a change that would help would be to have longer straights with bigger run-off zones,” he said.<\/p>\n

And HRT’s Karun Chandhok joked: “How about they try out my weekend programme and go straight into quali!?”<\/p>\n

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A meeting of the F1 teams association FOTA is expected to discuss the issue of boring races during a conference on Tuesday, according to Switzerland’s Motorsport Aktuell. \u00a0 The saga in the wake of Sunday’s 2010 opener, with the new refuelling ban blamed for the lack of on-track action, has some figures calling for 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":[59,5262,118],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324"}],"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=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}