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F1: Ecclestone Backs Return Of Qualifying Rule
Bernie Ecclestone likes the 107 percent rule but wants to take it further...
SPEED Staff / GMM  |  Posted March 14, 2010   Sakhir (BHR)
F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone wants a 16 million British pound deposit from the 13th Formula One team. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Bernie Ecclestone is supportive of the FIA's efforts to reinstate a 107 percent qualifying rule in Formula One.

FIA president Jean Todt indicated this weekend he will push for the rule, with cars failing to get within 107 percent of the pole time excluded from the race, to be applied in 2010.

But an immediate rule change would require the near-impossible feat of a unanimous team vote.

Introduction in 2011 requires just a 70 percent majority.

"We will reintroduce the rule," F1 chief executive Ecclestone is quoted as saying by France's Auto Hebdo. "Not this year, next year."

The Auto Hebdo report also said that Ecclestone wants the 107 percent rule tightened to 105 per cent for 2011.

107 percent of Sebastian Vettel's Bahrain pole is about 8 seconds, meaning that neither HRT driver would have qualified for the season opener.

At 105 percent, all of F1's three new teams would have struggled to qualify.

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