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Friday practice sessions unnecessary – Abiteboul

Renault Sport Formula 1 Team Boss Cyril Abiteboul believes one of the first things Liberty Media should do now they have completed their takeover of F1, is look to change the current race weekend format. The Frenchman feels that the way a grand prix round works at the moment, does not lend itself to making the F1 spectacle exciting, and that Friday practice sessions in particular are a pointless venture, which should be scrapped to try to make the schedule more appealing, as he explained to French publication Auto-Hebdo recently. 'Liberty Media should be given a few months to analyse the situation, before it can comment on this issue, but generally, the current format of the race weekend...
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