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Ecclestone wants Baku night race in 2017

 XPB Images Bernie Ecclestone declared himself positively satisfied with Baku's first running of a Formula 1 Grand Prix, and considers the Azerbaijan event has set a standard which other cities seeking to stage a race should follow. While F1's supremo  believes that an event should always seek improvement, he isn't forecasting any major changes for next year, but would ideally like to offset the start of the race by a few hours and have it run under the floodlights. "We need to have a good think about it, but I don't think so [that there would be changes]," Ecclestone told Motorsport.com. "They could open the streets a bit more. They're going to do that for sure....
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