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Todt admits that refuelling could return
FIA president Jean Todt admits that bringing refuelling back to F1 is still on the agenda In May last year, F1's controversial Strategy Group agreed that refuelling, which was dropped in 2009, would return to the sport in 2017, in an effort to 'improve the show'. The return of the practice was one of several decision to come out of a meeting of the group and was aimed at spicing up the sport at a time fans were turning away from F1 along with sponsors. However, refuelling was dropped at the end of 2009 not only on the grounds of cost and safety, but also the feeling that it was harming the spectacle, turning races into a series of sprints with pit strategy, as opposed to outright...
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