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Ecclestone clarifies 'walls' comment

Comments Bernie Ecclestone made to the British media in Austin were taken out of context and misinterpreted, the F1 supremo has said. Dismissing sensational headlines that suggested he wanted to see more crashes as this would excite the fans, the Briton says that while he would like to see the introduction of 'walls' in a bid to enforce track limits he has no desire to see drivers lives put in unnecessary danger. 'What I really said was that these walls should prevent the drivers from running off the track,' he told the official F1 website. 'Because now when they do, it is a case of somebody has to decide whether they ran off because they had a problem, or because they wanted to get an...
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