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F1 officials under-fire for qualifying format farce
Formula 1 officials have come under fire for what major newspapers including the Independent and Telegraph are calling the 2016 Formula 1 qualifying farce. Mere weeks before the new season, the decision-making F1 Commission agreed to implement a new ‘musical chairs' elimination format for qualifying this year. But F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, reportedly the architect of the scheme, had to admit that his software-writers at Formula One Management are unable to write the necessary software in time. 'You can imagine the high-level meeting where that bubble burst … and they forgot to ask the people on the ground whether they can do it or not,' former driver and now leading...
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