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Button opposed to new qualifying shakeup

Button opposed to new qualifying shakeup Jenson Button says he is opposed to ideas to improve F1 by shaking up the order of the grid. The sport has dropped its new ‘musical chairs' qualifying format following fierce criticism, but bosses will now put their minds to a potential new shakeup for 2017. Bernie Ecclestone's new preferred option is a qualifying ‘race' on Saturday. But Button, a F1 veteran, said ideas that are designed to artificially put faster cars behind their slower rivals on the grid are fundamentally wrong for the sport. 'F1 has never been that, and it should never be,' the Briton said in China. 'There are other things we can do to make the sport better. 'It...
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