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2017 testing row resolved

With a little help from Bernie Ecclestone, the teams have agreed on a pre-season testing programme. After weeks of wrangling it took less than an hour for F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone to settle the sport's latest row. Due to a number of factors, not least the uncertainty of the weather, Pirelli wanted next year's pre-season tests to take place in Bahrain. Rather than the possibility of rain in Spain, the Italian manufacturer wanted the all-important maiden tests of its new wider tyres to take place in conditions akin to those found at the opening races. When the idea of testing in the Middle East was first mooted, a number of teams immediately agreed however, a number of others were...
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