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The fight WEC could do without

That wasn’t the way for two prestigious World Endurance Championship titles to be settled. The GTE Pro battle between Ferrari and Porsche at the Bahrain 8 Hours last weekend was a corker that deserved to be decided in a straight fight on track. Right now the drivers’ and manufacturers’ championships seem to be have been determined not out in the heat of the desert night but in an air-conditioned office.

The important question about the messy business last Saturday was which office: race control or the stewards’ room?

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