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Old 15 May 2019, 06:18 (Ref:3903849)   #883
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The changes to the Superlicence criteria have trimmed the quota of this rather as it is often (although not always) the midfield runners that have the backing, but don't get the results to now qualify, so the 'best' the teams of that persuasion can flog is test/development contracts and for the fully funded - a couple of Friday practice sessions and one of the junior driver test days.
The cars need to be genuinely "hairy" and difficult to drive, then the driver becomes a genuine performance differentiator, you don't see any of this nonsense going on in MotoGP
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