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Wolff: Give us a third car for a young driver
Mercedes chief Toto Wolff has called for Formula 1 teams to be allowed to field a third ‘junior' car in an effort to address the problem of too many good young drivers for too few seats on the grand prix grid which would also boost fields at very little extra cost. Wolff told reporters at Monza, “I have a simple solution: Give us a third car. Make it mandatory to put a young driver with maximum two years [experience] in that car. “The costs wouldn’t be huge. The grid would be packed and we would have fantastic shows of new kids on the block coming up and fighting hard with the Valtteris and Lewis' of this world, and surprising us.” Red Bull runs a junior team, while Ferrari...
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