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No changes to Japan and Russia start times
Sochi race will start on time
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has ruled out moving the start time of Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix.
Shifting the 3pm start time forward by up to four hours has been under consideration, as the typhoon Phanfone bears down on Suzuka.
But Formula 1 chief executive Ecclestone, who is not in Japan this weekend, told Forbes: 'I'm not moving anything anywhere.
'Nothing is changing at the minute,' he told the Formula 1 business journalist Christian Sylt.
Indeed, the governing FIA has separately confirmed at Suzuka that Sunday's race will be at 3pm as scheduled.
That is despite the sport's official weather forecaster UBIMET predicting 'persistent' and often 'heavy'...
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