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Norris agrees sprint races will attract younger fans

Formula 1 wants to engage the youngsters with sprint qualifying – and McLaren's Lando Norris can certainly see it doing the trick. Sprint races were far from a new proposition for Formula 1, but the stumbling block for them in the past had been the idea of staging them with a reverse grid. That hurdle has now been passed though and sprint qualifying will debut at the British Grand Prix, with the result of that 100km race then setting the grid for the grand prix on the Sunday. Formula 1 has felt the need to offer a shorter form of racing in order to engage younger viewers, and that is a market Norris knows a lot about. He arguably led the charge in opening Formula 1 up to the world...
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