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Fastest man up front – a qualified success?

Eighty years ago this week, a grand prix grid was based on practice times for the first time. Edd Straw wonders if it's still the best way, even though it's enshrined in F1 tradition

These days, it's commonplace to criticise measures such as the DRS and high-degradation rubber as contrivances designed to improve the show but that fly in the face of 'traditional' grand prix racing.

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