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'Windbag' drivers are teams' mouthpieces - Bernie
Formula One drivers are only pushing for reforms to their troubled sport because their teams have told them to do so, according to Bernie Ecclestone. The veteran commercial ringmaster risked provoking an escalation in F1's latest crisis by suggesting the drivers are only "windbags" without a real voice in the way the sport is run. "They can say what they like. This is the whole thing," said Ecclestone in Manama late Friday ahead of Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix. "They cannot do anything. They have an opinion and everyone has got an opinion. "It is really their discussion with their team - and the team has got a voice. They are only saying what the teams have...
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