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Pirelli test plan approved by F1 Commission
Pirelli will be allowed more track time to prepare their 2017 tyres, after the Italian manufacturer threatened to quit Formula 1 if their test programme was not accepted. After writing to the FIA earlier this month, advising them that their proposal needed to be implemented urgently, the F1 Commission and the Strategy Group met on Monday where they swiftly moved to authorise Pirelli’s plans. Pirelli began to feel the pressure mounting when there was no word forthcoming either way from F1 bosses, and conceded that if they could not be granted extra track time to prepare the new wider 2017 tyres, then they would miss the deadline to have them ready for next season and would make...
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