Refuelling back in F1, seriously?

So, they want to bring refuelling back to Formula One on the grounds that it would make the sport more enthralling? How about asking Jos Verstappen his opinion on the proposal, he who suffered face burns when his Benetton was engulfed in a pit stop fire at the 1994 German Grand Prix in Hockenheim.

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