<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d3a6844e-df6d-4558-ae7d-f21e71bb1633/5A2B5336-64BA-430A-BF1A-A32AA8FD03C8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sportresults/mcn/2009/January/26-1/jan2909-engine-failures-penalised-in-motogp/?R=EPI-105805" href="http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sportresults/mcn/2009/January/26-1/jan2909-engine-failures-penalised-in-motogp/?R=EPI-105805" style="font-size: 11px;">www.motorcyclenews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sportresults/mcn/2009/January/26-1/jan2909-engine-failures-penalised-in-motogp/?R=EPI-105805"><P>Plans to extend engine life by at least 50 per cent and run just one motor for two or three races will be implemented for the 2010 world championship campaign as part of MotoGP’s radical costs cutting drive.</p> <P>The engine life extension though will see penalties enforced if a rider is forced to change an engine.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sportresults/mcn/2009/January/26-1/jan2909-engine-failures-penalised-in-motogp/?R=EPI-105805"><P>Ducati boss <A href="http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sportresults/?&Ntt=claudio%20domenicali&N=343+391&Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial&id=20249&Ntk=site">Claudio Domenicali</A> said: “Of course we are still discussing that (penalties) and we have F1 as an example.</p> <P>"We still have to define if it is a penalty with points like a rider does the race from the position he qualified but then only gets half of the points he scores in a race. Or you start at the back of the grid with a kind of lag in time in order for it to be safe at the first corner.</p> <P>"We want to avoid a dangerous situation where you start from the back being the fastest and then you try and overtake four just in the first corner.</p> <P>"This is still under discussion but there will be some form of penalty. But the rider will be allowed to race.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5A2B5336-64BA-430A-BF1A-A32AA8FD03C8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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