Sergio Marchionne, chairman of Ferrari, believes Formula 1 needs to decide on its direction for 2017 and beyond. Many different proposals were suggested at a recent meeting between the teams and Charlie Whiting of the FIA. These are aimed at making Formula 1 cars at least five or six seconds a lap faster. This will be attained by increasing the size of the tyres and wings, making the cars lighter and installing engines that can rev far higher than the current generation.  Marchionne feels that decisions about these changes for 2017 need to be made sooner rather than later.  'That is the year we can make a significant change in the rules, in the way in which the cars are...
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