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Sprint race plans to be voted on on Thursday

The plan to introduce three Saturday sprint races in the 2021 season is to be voted on in Thursday’s F1 Commission meeting. The sport has been considering changing up the qualifying format for quite some time, with Ross Brawn and co trying and failing to introduce reverse-grid races last season. With that proving unpopular, new CEO Stefano Domenicali recently stated that they had turned their attention to sprint races instead. “Reverse grid is over,” he told Motorsport.com, “that’s something I can tell you. “It’s important to think maybe of new ideas to be more attractive or interesting, but we don’t have to lose the traditional approach of racing. “I think that what we...
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