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2017 F1 Bahrain pre-season test plan scrapped

2017 F1 Bahrain pre-season test plan scrapped The push to have pre-season testing take place in Bahrain early next year has failed. Two tests in Barcelona had been provisionally scheduled, but Pirelli – strongly supported by Mercedes – was pushing for at least one outing in the guaranteed warmer and drier climes of Bahrain. 'The way the regulations are written, to test outside of Europe would require the unanimous consent of all of the teams and that doesn't exist,' Red Bull's Christian Horner said in Austin. Indeed, the teams got together with Bernie Ecclestone on Friday and agreed that the Bahrain issue was now off the table. But as a compromise, Bahrain has been pencilled-in...
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