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Refuelling amongst changes agreed for 2017

A raft of changes have been agreed which will be implemented in 2017 following a meeting between Formula 1 bosses on Thursday at Biggin Hill. The crunch meeting was aimed at discussing ways to make the sport more exciting by increasing the spectacle, whilst keeping costs under control. Customer cars could return in order to make the sport more affordable for smaller teams, but the biggest outcome of the meeting is the return of in-race refuelling, which was outlawed in 2009. Other changes include a number of measures, such as higher revving engines, to make the cars "between five and six seconds a lap faster", confirmed the FIA after the meeting, which also involved Bernie...
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