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Ecclestone backs Red Bull on equalisation
Bernie Ecclestone supports Red Bull's push to rein in Mercedes using the regulations.
After Mercedes' dominant display at the Australian Grand Prix, Red Bull boss Christian Horner called for the FIA to step in and equalise the engine manufacturers. Ecclestone agrees and says there is a provision in the regulations to do so.
"They are absolutely 100% right," Ecclestone told Reuters."There is a rule that I think [former president] Max [Mosley] put in when he was there that in the event...that a particular team or engine supplier did something magic - which Mercedes have done - the FIA can level up things.
"They [Mercedes] have done a first class job which everybody acknowledges. We need to change things a little bit now and try and level things up a little bit"
He added: "What we should have done was frozen the Mercedes engine and leave everybody else to do what they want so they could have caught up. We should support the FIA to make changes."
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