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Wolff against scrapping Friday track action in F1

Toto Wolff believes that scrapping Friday's practice sessions would reduce the value of F1, but the Mercedes boss is open to a shortened opening day schedule on Grand Prix weekends. Formula 1's chiefs recently sounded out the teams on the prospect of tweaking Friday's timing, while initial discussions about discarding the day altogether appear to have been abandoned. Less pre-season testing would 'mix things up' - Green "We did that in the DTM many years ago and it felt like the weekend was not spectacular and special anymore," said Wolff, quoted by Motorsport.com. "If it's cut short to two days it takes some value out of a race weekend and Formula 1 is the pinnacle of motor...
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