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The outside world has come crashing in on F1 in recent weeks. A global economic crisis and the extravagance of F1 don't sit comfortably together. So here comes Max Mosley, reinvigorated, seizing the moment to push through his long-held vision of F1 as little more than a spec formula. If F1 doesn't follow his vision, he implies, it will be dead by 2010. Maybe so. But F1 needs to be very careful at this crucial juncture that it doesn't throw the baby out with the cost-saving bath water. Costs do need to be cut urgently, and in the short term a measure of technical rationalisation will probably be the only way of doing this. But to extend that technical philosophy into a long term blueprint for F1 will surely kill it through lack of interest. Long term, lower spending levels do not - and should not - mean technical sterility. MotoGP bike racing has massively more technical diversity than F1 yet is vastly cheaper. Twenty years ago F1 featured full-on technical competition in engines, aerodynamics and tyres - for a fraction of the cost of the current much more technically restricted F1. The costs have been driven upwards purely by the commercial worth very wealthy entities have placed upon being in F1 during the boom years. Progressively restricting technology during that time has made absolutely zero impact upon costs; it has simply re-allocated them. The problem is that as the manufacturers drove the costs up, independent teams were unable to keep up and the very few that have survived are now in a parlous situation - and so, as a result, is F1. © 2021 Autosport
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Abu Dhabi / Results
Pos | Driver | Time |
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1 | Max Verstappen | 1h36m28.645s |
2 | Valtteri Bottas | 1h36m44.621s |
3 | Lewis Hamilton | 1h36m47.060s |
4 | Alexander Albon | 1h36m48.632s |
5 | Lando Norris | 1h37m29.374s |
Standings / After 17 races
Pos | Driver | Points |
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1 | Lewis Hamilton | 347 |
2 | Valtteri Bottas | 223 |
3 | Max Verstappen | 214 |
4 | Sergio Perez | 125 |
5 | Daniel Ricciardo | 119 |
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Coming up
Race | Circuit | Date |
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Bahrain | Bahrain | 28 Mar |
Emilia Romagna | Imola | 18 Apr |
? | ? | 2 May |
Spain | Catalunya | 9 May |
Monaco | Monte Carlo | 23 May |
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Berlin / Results
Pos | Driver | Time |
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1 | Stoffel Vandoorne | 47m22.107s |
2 | Nyck de Vries | 47m23.447s |
3 | Sebastien Buemi | 47m24.948s |
4 | Rene Rast | 47m25.687s |
5 | Sam Bird | 47m30.817s |
Standings / After 11 races
Pos | Driver | Points |
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1 | Antonio Felix da Costa | 158 |
2 | Stoffel Vandoorne | 87 |
3 | Jean-Eric Vergne | 86 |
4 | Sebastien Buemi | 84 |
5 | Oliver Rowland | 83 |
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Coming up
Race | Circuit | Date |
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Diriyah | Diriyah | 26 Feb 2021 |
Diriyah | Diriyah | 27 Feb 2021 |
Santiago | Parque O'Higgins | |
Santiago | Parque O'Higgins | |
Sanya | Sanya | |
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