The dumbing-down of Formula One?
After months of uncertainty and talk of a 2008 breakaway series, Japanese carmaker Honda has now admitted that peace lingers on the F1 horizon.
The Brackley based Grand Prix team owner`s racing president Yasuhiro Wada said in Barcelona that manufacturers - on one side - and Bernie Ecclestone and the FIA are `getting close` to looking into a unified future.

But he warned that many people, Honda included, are not happy about the proposed regulations for post-2007.

“The reason we are racing is for technical things,” Wada said, playing down the role that demands for more money has played in talks.

He warns that the FIA’s proposed rules dumb down what should be the pinnacle of car technology.

Wada asked: “Three-race gearbox and so on - where is the technology? We need to talk with them about these things. Commercial matters are not our priority. We can compromise a little on money and so forth.”

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