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F1 team bosses agree "terrible" qualifying format must go

Leading F1 team bosses have agreed that it's time to give up on elimination qualifying, and they hope that agreement can be reached to return to 2015 format for the next race in China. The teams are due to meet with Bernie Ecclestone and Jean Todt – who were not present at the Sunday meeting in Melbourne where it was agreed to ditch elimination – to discuss the future of qualifying. Today's second example of elimination was widely regarded as being even more disappointing than the first in Melbourne. "I don't think there was any great surprise in what we saw," Red Bull boss Christian Horner told Motorsport.com after the session. "There's too much emphasis on the beginning...
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