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Marchionne 'encouraged by engine talks

In reaction to F1's initials proposals for the engine formula from 2021, the Ferrari president's reaction was swift, threatening to take the Italian team out of the sport. Unhappy with plans to use more standard parts, Marchionne also made it clear that Ferrari, which remains the only manufacturer still in the sport since it began in 1950, would not tolerate plans to simplify engines claiming that this was interfering with the sport's DNA. He subsequently made the threat to take Ferrari out of F1 to a breakaway series. However, further proposals put to the teams in Bahrain appear to have gone down well, and while Marchionne's first reaction was to insist that his treat to take the company...
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