[Sky Sports F1]

Bernie Ecclestone has called on the Formula One teams to adopt a standard engine in time for the 2010 season.

Bernie wants standard engines

[Racer Duck]

Holy Cow!

DOF's predictions are coming true!

[DOF_power]

Even more:

Bernie Ecclestone outlines Formula One plan


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The proposals represent a huge cultural and philosophical shift for an elitist sport that has always been seen as not only a competition between the best drivers in the world but a battle between some of the best engine and car manufacturers, most of whom have long and proud traditions in motor sport.
Ecclestone, who has never been one to worry about sentimentality, is determined that this reform will be put in place by the beginning of the 2010 season and that it will not fall by the wayside, as many apparently radical proposals in Formula One have done in the past.
“The thing I am most excited about is pushing and pushing and pushing the homologated engine idea,” he said yesterday, during the build-up to this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji.
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Apart from discussions about engines, the WMSC was notable also for the reception given to Ecclestone after he said that he regretted having asked Mosley to stand down as president in the wake of lurid revelations in a newspaper about his private life. Ecclestone is understood to have said that, having been friends with Mosley for 40 years, “when he needed some support I should have given it to him”.
Mosley was described as “genuinely surprised” and “moved” by Ecclestone’s comments. The episode underlines that, notwithstanding the teams, manufacturers and sponsors who want Mosley out, the most powerful man in Formula One has buried the hatchet with his old friend.

Bernie Ecclestone outlines Formula One plan - Times Online

[DOF_power]

Originally Posted by Racer Duck

Holy Cow!

DOF's predictions are coming true!

And here's a prediction, I'll stop watching. This will be the death of Grand Prix racing.

What top series is actually enjoy-ing the supposed fruitfull/great spec-ification ?!

NASCAR's got great ratings and attendance lately ?!
Or is the Indy 500 enjoying a Golden Era ?!
How 'bout IROC, that turned out well didn't it ?!
And A1GP, will it ever catch on the way they're losing money ?!

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by DOF_power

And here's a prediction, I'll stop watching. This will be the death of Grand Prix racing.

What top series is actually enjoy-ing the supposed fruitfull/great spec-ification ?!

NASCAR's got great ratings and attendance lately ?!
Or is the Indy 500 enjoying a Golden Era ?!
How 'bout IROC, that turned out well didn't it ?!
And A1GP, will it ever catch on the way they're losing money ?!

The way it's looking, if people ever wake up and realize how exciting, action-filled and basically unmanipulated Aussie V8 Super Cars, The ALMS, and BTCC are, the rest of these contrived, over-regulated, self important, homogenous forms of racing (F1, NASCAR, etc., etc.) will be in deep, dark kimchee.