New details of the plan to spice up qualifying for 2014 have emerged. Last week, it emerged that at a meeting in Bahrain on February 21, F1's major players will move to ensure the final 'Q3' segment is exciting under the radically different regulations. The fear is that, to preserve tyres and for reasons of reliability, drivers will sit out the session for other tactical reasons. It was reported that a likely solution would be to supply drivers with an extra set of tyres for the final 'Q3' hitout. Writing in Autosprint, the Italian correspondent Roberto Chinchero said the extra set, only eligible to be used in Q3, will be the 'option' - or fastest - tyre. According to the reported proposal,...
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