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Autosport: Traffic Jam on the Road to Damascus

One doesn't wish to sound churlish, but for a while it has seemed that members of the governing body have had something of a change of heart when it comes to the question of overtaking. A traffic jam on the Road to Damascus, perhaps...

Autosport Magazine Dec 20, 2006, 1:18 PM

The majority of Max Mosley's Silverstone press conference was given over to future engine regulations, energy storage devices and the like, but right at the end, in speaking of the proposed - and controversial - CDG wing, he stressed that the FIA wished to see more overtaking in the future. That was important, he said, and his words came strongly back to me on Sunday afternoon.

One doesn't wish to sound churlish, but for a while it has seemed that members of the governing body have had something of a change of heart when it comes to the question of overtaking. A traffic jam on the Road to Damascus, perhaps.