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Ecclestone pushing to introduce ‘one chassis, one engine’ solution

F1 appears to be racing headlong into its ‘customer cars' future. Germany's Auto Motor und Sport reports that four teams – Lotus, Force India, Sauber and Manor – are in dire and almost immediate danger of collapsing mid-season. The idea was discussed last week at a meeting of F1’s strategy group, made up of the bigger teams, Ecclestone and the FIA, the sport’s governing body. And now Ecclestone has talked about his vision for 2017. “I’ve been pushing, pushing, pushing for single chassis, single engine, and run it exactly the same as now, but they [the teams] can’t muck around with the car,” Ecclestone said. It would explain why Bernie Ecclestone is pushing so...
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