F1 Racing Australia - May 2018

happy to be in Asia and to bring F1 to developing countries

would very good. If it can be put together, why not?

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President. What do you still want to achieve?

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are there to facilitate the life of road users around the world.

I have been honoured to be appointed and now

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dying on the roads. We should not be used to seeing people

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a laboratory for what is happening on the road.

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essential, but they’re also challenging. So it

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that the end change is constructive – and

that’s what we will try to do.

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of which will use the halo this season]. And we are going to

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our interests to have the best product available and to have

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25 races a season within a couple of years?

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calendar looks very good: the French Grand

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we hear about potential new races in Argentina

• I would love to see a race there! Fangio,
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THE

LONG

INTERVIEW JEAN TODT

FOR ME, THE HALO IS NO

PROBLEM BUT I HOPED WE

WOULD HAVE HAD MORE

SUPPORT FROM EVERYBODY

• THE FANS, THE MEDIA –

FOR SOMETHING THAT

IS FOR SAFETY

The halo has long

proved contentious,

but Todt rejects any

criticism of a device

that could save lives

: JOE PORTLOCK