In the round-up: Bernie Ecclestone warns again over F1?s planned engine rules change.
Links
Top F1 links from the past 24 hours:
Bernie Ecclestone not happy with the sound of ?green? engines (The Times, subscription required)
?It is a big part of the appeal, part of the thing that makes us different. If the fans don?t buy tickets, the promoters lose money and we will lose a few races.? He could always charge them less.
Watch an exclusive clip from Senna (The Guardian)
Short clip from ?Senna? focusing on the 1990 Suzuka collision.
Post mortem on the Malaysian penalties (Joe Saward)
?The FIA is not being inconsistent, but rather trying to establish limits that will create consistency in the new world of DRS and KERS. This is important to avoid dangerous wheel-over-wheel accidents. The drivers and teams are very keen to know the limits and both teams strongly urged the FIA to create clear guidelines during the hearings after the race in Kuala Lumpur.? It is frankly ridiculous ? yet depressingly true to form ? that the FIA would choose to change its interpretation on matters as important as this and then not make the information public knowledge.
Don?t question my loyalty! Hamilton hits back at rumours he?s ready to quit McLaren (Daily Mail)
?I have always enjoyed racing here and would like to continue but you also, at the end of the year, have to assess what position you are in and what happened.?
Di Resta takes praise in his stride (BBC)
?I?d like some more points. I?d like some nice cars but there is plenty of time later in life for that, so I?ll take some more points.?
Williams still deciding on new exhaust (Williams)
Rubens B arrichello: ?They seemed to lose a little bit of performance towards the end of the last session though which means we?ll have to work hard to evaluate them properly. We need to go through the data to see whether we will keep to this plan or go back to the original one.?
Chinese Grand Prix ? Conference 2 (FIA)
Paddy Lowe (McLaren): ?I think that quite honestly, our ambitions exceed our ability to deliver, so fairly late on, through the winter testing, we realised we needed to regroup and consider a different design, something that we would actually know how to make and get on the car reliably. I think it?s also worth pointing out that the car was desperately unreliable, actually, through the tests in February but not all as a consequence of this subject that we?re talking about, so we had a range of issues which we fortunately managed to sort out.?
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Comment of the day
Oliver picks up on one of the stories from practice that didn?t get much attention:
HRT finding their feet steadily. They about level with Virgin right now perhaps a tenth faster. But as they cover more miles I expect them to be ahead by the time they get to Europe
Oliver
From the forum
Some interesting takes on F1 circuit alternations.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to AndrewTanner and SoLiD!
On this day in F1
And happy birthday to Paul di Resta who turns 25 today!
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