Economic crisis has not caused problems - Ecclestone

According to Bernie Ecclestone, the current economic crisis has not caused any problems for Formula One, since as he sees it teams have not been cutting costs and are actually using more personell than they did in past seasons.

Ecclestone shared with 'The Guardian' newspaper, "I don't get the impression that this crisis has caused any problems, which is a big surprise."

"You would have thought that the teams would take less people and start to cut down on costs. But they're taking more people to the races than they took last year. I know exactly because we do all the credentials.It doesn't look to me as though they're cutting down too much."

The only major setbacks in the series have been the withdrawal of the Honda F1 race team, and the decision of ING and RBS to end their F1 participation at the end of this year.