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Stick-in-the-muds worked themselves into a lather over Formula One’s planned reforms — proof, if nothing else, that even in the fast lane, tradition can still be a drag.

And finally, in a stark display of the power that F1 teams wield, they got the sport’s bosses to back off.

The score: teams 1, bosses 0. It’s a result that could bode ill for those — led by Max Mosley, head of F1’s governing body — who want shock therapy to wean the sport off its high-spending habits so that it survives the global credit crunch.

Mosley’s governing body, the FIA, said Friday it would freeze plans to shake up how F1’s championship winner … Details

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