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Why 'Formula Farce' won't last long

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The F1 field only managed 93 laps in total on day one of 2014 testing at Jerez, compared to 657 twelve months ago. But JONATHAN NOBLE reckons that situation will soon change

Formula 1 had been bracing itself for a character-building start to testing at Jerez in Spain, but few had expected the kind of day we were eventually treated to.

The talk over the winter months had been of a reliability bloodbath in Spain; of frequent red flags and blown engines.

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