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Qualifying was terrible Mr Todt

After the Australian Grand Prix debacle, the powers that be ignored all and sundry by insisting that the musical chairs qualifying would continue in Bahrain, when it was very clear that the format was a disaster with no room from improvement. The warnings came from the fans, the drivers and the teams whose engineers had simulated trillions of scenarios on their computers and concluded that no way the new system would deliver anything but a bore. But the collective majority, aggrieved and in protest, were ignored. Roll on Bahrain and we were dished out another huge anti-climax to what was once upon a time one of the greatest spectacles in sport – Formula 1 qualifying. There is a very...
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