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Jordan blasts medal plans

Former F1 team boss Eddie Jordan has blasted Bernie Ecclestone's plans to introduce a new medal system for the drivers' championship in a bid to increase overtaking and encourage drivers to take more risks.

"I think the proposals are nonsense," Jordan told the BBC. "I can't possibly believe he's thinking straight, especially on this one. His focus must be on cost-cutting and nothing else. The rest is just dressing it up."

"The points are necessary," he added. "I was one of the team principals who advocated the points should go down to eighth because one point is as important to those smaller teams as a win is to McLaren or Ferrari."

"He's tinkering with something on which he's lost the understanding, he thinks only wins matter," Jordan went on. "When Hamilton lost the Belgian race to Massa [by the stewards' decision] can you believe the controversy that would have created? There's not been enought though put into this and for him to say that it comes with the full approval of all the teams - I just don't believe it."

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