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Alonso: Rules shake-up shows F1 went the wrong way

Fernando Alonso says that the Strategy Group's decision to propose a Formula 1 overhaul for 2017 suggests the sport has been heading in the wrong direction in recent years. F1's chiefs agreed last week that they will evaluate plans to make cars up to six seconds per lap quicker as part of an effort to make grand prix racing more exciting. Alonso believes that if those changes come to pass, it will show that F1 has lost its way in recent years with high-degrading tyres and fuel management a key part of the racing. "I think if the [rule changes happen] then we will get some kind of rules of seven or eight years ago, which means that the last four or five years we were going in the wrong...
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