29 April 2021 • 2:33pm
Pole position battles between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton will take a twist later this year
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For a sport that lives or dies by innovation, Formula One can be spectacularly ham-fisted when it comes to conceiving fresh ways to sell the show. The sport still shudders at its dalliance with elimination-style qualifying in 2016, when Lewis Hamilton set an unassailable time in Australia at his first attempt, prompting everyone else to sit in their garages until the end to save tyres. Two years earlier, Bernie Ecclestone imagined he could enliven the season finale by offering double points in Abu Dhabi. Both ruses, having been drowned out by howls of derision, were scrapped after only one race.
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