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Are mixed up grids right for F1?
The way circumstances played out on race day in Shanghai inadvertently gave a perfect case study of how things might be if F1 adopted the oft-mooted mixed grid format. Not that the grid was particularly mixed in China (Lewis Hamilton's back row start aside), but the early safety car that divided the field into slow cars that didn't need to pit and faster cars that did (because they'd had to start the race on the much less durable super-soft tyres) putting the slower cars ahead of the fast cars on track, simulated that effect. As Lewis Hamilton explained a couple of weeks ago, the lap-time difference needed to make passing possible is enormous. "If you recall, one of the closest races I...
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