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Villeneuve: Reverse grids will turn F1 into a game

While Formula 1 stakeholders look to tinker with the sport's format in an effort to improve the show, there is growing dissent among fans and pundits who are wary of such plans. Among proposals being considered for experimentation next year, are a qualifying race with reverse order grid to decide the starting positions for race day. Ideas which have divided, ane even shocked, the paddock. So much so that F1's suggested sprint race qualifying format risks turning the sport into 'a game' according to 1997 F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, but it comes at the same time as Max Verstappen likened the reverse-grid Saturday race idea as akin to 'American wrestling'. Villeneuve told...
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