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F1 negativity may have boosted sport, says chief

Interest in Formula 1 may have actually increased on the back of recent suggestions that the sport is in crisis, claims one of its leading figures. Martin Sorrell, a non-executive member of the F1 board, suggests that rather than criticisms of grand prix racing having been a turn-off, people have actually started paying more attention. In an interview with news agency the Associated Press, Sorrell said: "What's interesting is when sports are under pressure, it's a reverse psychology, people start to get more interested. "The more friction there is in the sport I think it actually in a perverse way becomes more interesting, rather than less interesting." Not all good Sorrell...
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