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New F1 qualifying gets thumbs up from Lauda

Mercedes team chairman  Niki Lauda has shown the thumbs-up to Formula 1's impending change to the qualifying format for 2016. At meetings in Geneva on Tuesday, the sport collectively agreed that every 90 seconds during qualifying this year, the slowest car should be knocked out. 'This is a good move,' F1 legend Lauda told Speed Week, 'because the fans will see more cars on the track. 'We have adopted a meaningful change that will mean no one can afford to just stay in the box as they sometimes did. The new format is easy to implement and a good thing,' he added. Lauda acknowledged, however, that at the Geneva meetings, little else was agreed. 'We agree that the cars for 2017 should be...
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