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F1 teams lobby Ecclestone on track limits U-turn

Formula 1's ongoing controversy surrounding track limits took a fresh twist on Friday when Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull complained to Bernie Ecclestone about the FIA's decision to not abandon its restrictions at Hockenheim. A meeting of F1's Strategy Group at Geneva on Thursday had reached agreement that the sport should move away from a recent clampdown on track limits because it was felt it would improve the show. But just a day after that decision, F1 race director Charlie Whiting said that allowing such total freedom would be 'inappropriate'. "The difficulty of allowing complete freedom, i.e. allowing everyone to go wide and taking no notice of it, is simply that there would be a...
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