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F1 set to ditch proposal of 2017 in-race refuelling

Mercedes F1 team boss Toto Wolff revealed that, F1 is set to ditch a plan to bring back in-race refuelling in 2017 following the technical feedback was unanimously against the move. “When we discussed it in the strategy group it didn’t have a lot of support but we agreed to explore it, to discuss it in the technical regulations meeting and in the SRM (sporting regulations meeting) and analyse it properly,” Wolff told Reuters yesterday in Canada. “The feedback was 100 per cent negative: too expensive, not safe enough, detrimental to the races and the strategies. “So it’s going to go back in the strategy group and my opinion is it shouldn’t happen. I’m not keen on getting...
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