{"id":4197,"date":"2010-04-06T07:12:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2010-04-06T07:12:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:12:24","slug":"coulthard-urges-f1-to-hold-fire-on-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/coulthard-urges-f1-to-hold-fire-on-rule-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Coulthard urges F1 to hold fire on rule changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Despite recently slamming F1&#8217;s boring new formula, David Coulthard now insists the constant sniping about the sport&#8217;s dubious spectacle is &#8220;getting a little wearing&#8221;.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the 2010 season opener, the former grand prix driver wrote in his Telegraph column that the processional Bahrain race was the fault of ex-FIA president Max Mosley.<\/p>\n<p>Scot Coulthard hit out at not only the refuelling ban, but also the 18,000rpm rev limit, long-life gearboxes and engines and the single tyre supplier.<\/p>\n<p>But with the weather intervening to spice up the subsequent action in Australia and Malaysia, the 39-year-old has now changed his tune.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sport seems to be under permanent review at the moment but let&#8217;s just hang on a minute,&#8221; said the winner of 13 grands prix, referring to the latest reports about Bernie Ecclestone still wanting to make some rule changes.<\/p>\n<p>After Bahrain, Coulthard backed calls for two mandatory pitstops and tyres that are designed to degrade faster.<\/p>\n<p>But he wrote in his latest newspaper column: &#8220;Not every football match is a classic and no one is calling for the beautiful game to be ripped up by its roots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw enough at searing Sepang on Sunday to suggest that the powers-that-be play it by ear for now,&#8221; added Coulthard, admitting that three weeks after boring Bahrain &#8220;everything is looking a lot rosier&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite recently slamming F1&#8217;s boring new formula, David Coulthard now insists the constant sniping about the sport&#8217;s dubious spectacle is &#8220;getting a little wearing&#8221;.<\/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":[410,5262,5300,5261,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197"}],"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=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}