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Changes have little effect - Hamilton

World champion Lewis Hamilton says planned changes to qualifying for this season will not have much effect. A new elimination-based system will be introduced as long as the teams do not find any major problems when they study it in the next days. But Hamilton said: "I don't really feel like it is going to change much. I hope it's a surprise for us all and I hope it does." Williams driver Felipe Massa, however, said the plan could cause "chaos". The idea is to retain the current system of three parts of qualifying, but eliminate one driver at a time through each of the sessions. This would result in a 90-second shoot-out for pole position between two drivers. "I...
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