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F1 should expect new rules - FIA

F1 should expect 'knockout' qualifying and the return of tyre changing in 2006, FIA president Max Mosley said in Shanghai. ''I think we will end up with a different qualifying system,'' the Englishman said, urging a sensible upcoming meeting of the F1 Commission.

''Now we've got the smaller engines, if they want to change tyres, that's fine,'' Mosley told 'Speed TV'.

The FIA's support of scrapping the one-tyre per race rule, however, has led to predictable speculation that it's all about helping Bridgestone and Ferrari bounce back. Max replied: ''It's a fallacy. It's up and down all the time - you don't know who's going to get more out of what.''

Ferrari's Ross Brawn agrees that changes will be made 'in the name of the spectacle', rather than to help the red team. ''In the last six years,'' he told La Gazzetta dello Sport, ''the only aim of new regulations was to fight our superiority.''

It's no surprise, however, that Ferrari wholeheartedly support the proposed restoration of F1 tyre changing. But Britain's Brawn insisted: ''Only McLaren is definitely against it - as you'd expect.''

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