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What can F1 do to keep grid numbers up?

Formula 1 can't make its mind up on how to keep grid numbers high. DIETER RENCKEN explains why, and points to a lesson to be learned from controversy-rocked FIFA

As Formula 1 decamped ahead of its blue-riband event on the streets of Monaco, it faced four choices in order to maintain the integrity of grids at 20 (or more) entries.

True, 2015's line-up numbers that level, to be bolstered next year by the arrival of Haas F1, but such are the woes created by F1's inequitable payouts and sundry commercial issues that the futures of F1's various independent operations cannot be guaranteed.

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