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F1 puts 'sprint race' vote on team meeting's agenda
Formula 1 teams will vote this week on a proposal to trial this year at three events the concept of a Saturday sprint race that would determine Sunday's grid. The plan was tabled last year along with the idea of resorting to reverse grids to spice up the show but failed to gain Mercedes' support. While reverse grids have been permanently binned, a vote on sprint races will once again take place
at Thursday's meeting of the F1 Commission. The plan would involve a Friday qualifying session to determine the grid for the Saturday sprint race. The latter - a 100km race, or one third the distance of a Grand Prix - would therefore replace Saturday's qualifying. The short event would also carry...
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