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FIA approves more testing for Pirelli amid quit warning
Formula 1 has agreed to allow Pirelli more track days to test next year's tyres after the sole supplier threatened to quit at the end of the season if a rule change was not ratified on Monday. 'It has been approved,' said a spokesman for the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) after a Formula One commission meeting. Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery is quoted by media as saying there would be insufficient time to prepare the wider tyres planned for 2017 if the commission failed to agree changes. Pirelli won a tender for the 2017-19 contract in October but that has yet to be signed off with the International Automobile Federation (FIA) pending agreement on testing...
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