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Fernando Alonso Fernando Alonso has returned to training as he prepares to rejoin the Formula 1 World Championship for the upcoming Chinese Grand Prix. The Spaniard was denied a start last time out in Bahrain, where FIA ...

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Chinese Grand Prix – The qualifying format used up until the end of 2015 is set to return for the remainder of this year's championship, provided it is ratified in the coming days. The elimination style qualifying roll...

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OK, so Spa-Francorchamps with a 2005 car on track looks great, but this is the perfect picture of a qualifying session that year. Prior to the three-stage knockout system being introduced in 2006, F1 qualifying consisted...

Andrea Iannone says he is not thinking about Jorge Lorenzo's possible move to Ducati, as he looks to turn around his own tough start to the MotoGP season

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The teams stood firm and the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone listened, qualifying is set to change back to the 2015 system. The elimination-style format has not been well received and teams were only willing to revert to last ...

The Pitpass crew returns to discuss the Bahrain Grand Prix, and for once they just about manage it. Chris Balfe, Max Noble and Mat Coch - for it is they - touch on such topics such as Lewis' dress sense and where Max (No...

Faced with a wall of resistance, motor sport's governing body has agreed for Formula One to revert back to last year's qualifying format after the new system proved widely unpopular. …

Formula 1 is set to revert back to last year's qualifying format after team bosses knocked back the sport's latest proposal on Thursday. The teams, in a united letter to FIA president Jean Todt and Bernie Ecclestone, the...

FIA and FOM official statement – At the unanimous request of the teams in a letter received today, Jean Todt, President of the FIA, and Bernie Ecclestone, commercial rights holder... More »

Formula 1 teams have suggested a global assessment of qualifying for 2017 after it was decided to revert to last year's format from the next grand prix in China

Pirelli Media The FIA and FOM have accepted a request byFormula 1 teams to drop the live elimination qualifying session from the Chinese Grand Prix next weekend. A new system, in which drivers were eliminated at 90 secon...

Teams win out over FIA and Commercial Rights Holder as qualifying reverts to 2015 format in time for China. Despite a lack of official word on the matter sections of the media jumped the gun this afternoon, announcing th...

The FIA has confirmed that Formula 1 qualifying will revert to its 2015 format, starting with next weekend's Chinese Grand Prix. As Motorsport.com revealed earlier, the teams had unanimously voted against the idea of agg...

Canadian Nicholas Latifi is about to enter his fifth season in car racing as a member of the powerful DAMS squadron in the GP2 Series. During the four past years, Latifi competed in the Italian, British and European Form...

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The 2015 qualifying format is back in Formula 1 from China onwards after Bernie Ecclestone and the FIA gave in to teams' demands. The post Formula 1 reverts to 2015 qualifying appeared first on PlanetF1.

Formula 1 will officially revert back to the 2015 qualifying format used last season, after FIA president Jean Todt and Bernie Ecclestone caved into demands from the teams to drop controversial plans to implement an agg...