'Bring back slicks' - Ecclestone

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The F1 supremo sided with the many drivers and team personnel who believe the move to treaded tyres and narrow track cars has damaged F1.

His move leaves long-time friend and FIA president Max Mosley, isolated in his
insistence that harder rubber is the sport's future. Ecclestone denied his
opinions had put him on a collision-course with Mosley.

'F1 is strategic and it can be like a football match where it is 0-0
but if the tactics and the excitement are there nobody complains - but we
have to make sure there is overtaking,' said Ecclestone.

'I have never been one for making (hard) tyres the way to go. Max has always had
this ambition but I don't know why.

'Max wants to slow the cars down because an accident at 160mph is not as bad
as one at 200mph.

'But you could be killed at 40mph so that argument doesn't work.

'I want to see people right under the rear wings of the cars in front so
they can overtake. It is something we have to do."

The sport's future, he said, lay in fatter cars and less concentration on
aerodynamics.

Mosley has already admitted that the sport may have gone too far in the
search for safety to the detriment of the racing, but has stood his ground on the issue of grooved tyres.