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F1 paddock divided over new qualifying format

Paddock opinion at the Barcelona test has been divided in two, after the FIA confirmed that the Forula 1 Commission in Geneva'unanimously approved a new qualifying format. Mercedes team chairman Niki Lauda had been the first to hail the move to revamp the current ‘knockout' format by eliminating a slowest car every 90 seconds. Red Bull's Christian Horner agrees, 'It could create a bit more randomness for the grid on Sunday, without artificially inverting grids.' And Nico Rosberg said: 'I think it's always good when we question our sport and try to bring fresh aspects into it.' Actually reversing the grids – earlier slammed as a 'disaster' by Romain Grosjean – had been F1...
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