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F1 to be five seconds slower in 2014
Bernie Ecclestone is worried F1 cars will be five seconds per lap slower next year compared to 2013.
That is the claim of Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt, who said F1's chief executive is also pushing to increase the likely revs of the radical new turbo V6s next year from just 12,000rpm to 15,000.
The extra revs would alleviate some of Ecclestone's fears about the tamer tones of the V6s compared to this year's howling V8s, but Schmidt said the change is actually unlikely.
That is because of the current rules limiting the engines' flow rate to 100 kilograms per hour, and each car to just 135 litres of fuel per race.
The amount of fuel allocated to each car would be easy to...
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