The newly re-elected Jean Todt says he supports moves to reinstate permanent race numbers in Formula One. In an earlier era, F1 fans became accustomed to associating a number with their favourite driver — like Gilles Villeneuve's fabled 27, or the ‘red 5′ of Nigel Mansell. But in more recent years, race numbers have simply been assigned by the FIA on the basis of teams' finishing positions in the constructors' world championship. It emerged recently, however, that a push is on to bring back permanent race numbers, with the obvious exception being the '1′ of the reigning world champion. 'I am very supportive of that,' Frenchman Todt, the continuing FIA president, is...
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