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Todt: Saturday FP2 on sprint weekend ‘makes no sense'

Jean Todt says that having FP2 on a race weekend featuring sprint qualifying makes no sense and perplexes him.  The new format, featuring traditional qualifying on a Friday and a sprint qualifying in place of a third practice session on a Saturday, was tried for the second time at the Italian Grand Prix. The reception to it wasn't particularly positive, with wheel-to-wheel racing hard to come by and overtakes few and far between. Another thing that fans complained about was the practice session on Saturday morning between the two qualifying events, with it providing little entertainment and arguably making the events that followed worse as it made the teams more well informed. Todt, the...
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