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Alonso: 'F1 has been going in the wrong direction'

Fernando Alonso has spoken out against Formula 1's current regulations, claiming the sport has been "going in the wrong direction", and the move to shake things up in 2017 is proof of that. F1 bosses collectively agreed to introduce a raft of changes aimed at making the cars faster by between "five and six seconds a lap", believing this will reinvigorate the sport and draw viewers back. Alonso backs these changes, claiming modern cars are much too slow when compared to the machinery he drove and won two titles in during the 2005 and 2006 seasons. "If they happen, we will get rules like seven or eight years ago," he said on Wednesday. "For the last four or...
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