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Ecclestone takes aim at Todt over engine impasse

 XPB Images Formula One commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has said that the FIA needs to step up and take charge in the ongoing deadlock over power unit regulation changes for 2017. Speaking with Sky Sports News HQ, Ecclestone blamed lack of direction at the top of the sport for the current lack of progress over the issue. Plans for a simpler, cheaper customer engine were shelved last month after the World Motorsport Council decided instead to task Ecclestone and FIA president Jean Todt with the responsibility "to make recommendations and decisions regarding a number of pressing issues in Formula 1 such as governance, power units and cost reduction." "What...
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