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Four F1 teams rejected qualifying tweaks
McLaren and Red Bull were not the only teams that objected to the tweaking of the highly-unpopular ‘musical chairs' qualifying system for the Bahrain Grand Prix and beyond. We reported on Wednesday that because those two teams rejected the FIA's proposal to tweak only the ‘Q3' segment after the farcical debut in Melbourne, the sport is stuck with the same hated format for this weekend. A senior insider told us McLaren, in particular, felt so strongly about wanting to revert to the full 2015 format that it was not prepared to accept the FIA 'fudge' proposal. Auto Motor und Sport now reports that Toro Rosso and Williams also opposed the only FIA alternative on offer, which was to...
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