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F1 teams decide on Barcelona pre-season testing

The Formula One teams have finally come to an agreement on the 2017 pre-season testing location, opting once again to go testing at Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. A suggestion from Pirelli to test at Bahrain has therefore been rejected. Formula One's tyre supplier Pirelli had pushed to move pre-season testing to Bahrain. The Italian manufacturer wanted to get teams there in order to get proper warm weather testing to evaluate the wider tyres in compliance with the 2017 technical regulations. While the decision was quickly agreed by a number of teams, including Mercedes and Ferrari, others were recently vocal that they did not want to get pushed into this move. Apart from the obvious...
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