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'Not fish, not meat' - F1 risks prioritising quantity over quality with sprint qualifying format

MONZA, Italy -- Another sprint race, another underwhelming 100km of racing. The second running of Formula One's experimental race format offered up a couple of spills but very few thrills at Monza on Saturday. It wasn't helped by the fact that the driver who qualified first on Friday, won the sprint race on Saturday and was therefore in line for pole position on Sunday, Valtteri Bottas, will start from the back of the grid following an engine change -- but that's another argument about F1 grid penalties that should probably be saved for another day. The main problem with Saturday's sprint race was a simple lack of overtaking. Dull races are to be expected in F1 -- last weekend's Dutch...
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