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Honda’s F1 team won’t compete in next year’s season. Although at first Honda’s CEO Takeo Fukui said Honda has a few months to find a suitable sponsor, on Friday he decided Honda won’t compete in next year’s season. Takeo Fukui said that Honda could invest that huge amount of money in other things that are more useful to the company.

I agree because the last time Honda won a Grand Prix was in 2006, and sustaining a F1 team means investing millions and millions of dollars, money that automakers can’t really afford throwing away.

Bernie Ecclestone, the F1 boss is going really crazy really fast. He wants to change the way the Formula One championship is won. We will propose to the FIA council to crown winner the driver who wins the most races. Bernie says this will be introduced in the 2009 season.

“It’s going to happen. All the teams are happy. The whole reason for this is I am fed up with people talking about there being no overtaking,” he said.

Lewis Hamilton would have failed to win this year’s title under such a system, which Ecclestone wants for 2009.

Check out the full report here.

Thx for the tip Tibi.

That’s right, I’ve said it, the new design really sucks. F1 cars are made to look good and perform exceptional. I like the fact that F1 is a fast sport, but I don’t think that if you will put a shorter wing on a F1, that will make it faster, there’s no chance believe me. The car you see in the picture above is the 2009 F1 car from BMW.
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