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'Refuelling return may not happen'
Hours after F1 fans applauded the news that refuelling could return in 2017, Toto Wolff says it won't if it proves to be 'too expensive'. Refuelling was banned from the sport back in 2010 due to safety and cost concerns. But when F1's Strategy Group met on Thursday to discuss the sport's future, it was back on the agenda. The FIA announced a day later that for 2017 there will be the 'reintroduction of refuelling (maintaining a maximum race fuel allowance).' However, Mercedes motorsport boss Wolff has revealed it may not happen. He told the BBC: 'We discussed many topics. Refuelling was banned because of cost and because the pit stops were taking too long. 'But we want to...
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