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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 17 MAY 2015 57 Sport FORMULA 1 Virtù Ferries This week's winner is RITA PIZZUTO who collected her two tickets from Virtù Ferries MaltaToday and Virtù Ferries have teamed up to take one lucky winner and a companion every week to Sicily, with two tickets to be won every week in our photography competition. Already been on holiday? Good: we're sending you back if your best photograph from your holidays and travels makes the cut. That's right: send us a good quality image of your holidays and we'll send the best one to the gateway of Italy with Virtù Ferries. Malta - Sicily Express Ferries For more information visit www.virtuferries.com or contact by telephone 23491000 RULES OF THE COMPETITION maltatoday Conditions apply: 1. Tickets for each week's competition can only be won by one person who submits one entry of a high-res image with description. Entrants with more than one entry WILL NOT be considered. Entrants must send a description of photo. 2. Winners will be informed before the end of the week, and then announced on maltatoday.com.mt and MaltaToday on Sunday. 3. By entering this offer, entrants consent to their photos being published and owned by Mediatoday Co Ltd. 4. The entrant with the best photograph will be awarded two (2) return tickets, valid for travel to any Virtù Ferries destination. Mediatoday's decision is final. 5. Tickets are issued free of charge, excluding port charges, and in accordance with Virtù Ferries' rules and regulations. All taxes and charges are to be paid accordingly by the winning entrant upon the issuance of tickets. 6. This offer is closed to employees and contributors of Mediatoday Co. Ltd and Virtù Ferries, or their family members. This week's theme: Travel SEND US PHOTOS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY PHOTO COMPETITION Photos should be a hi-res image (one per individual entry) with a sentence or two about what inspired you to take your photo. Entrants are kindly reminded not to send in personal family pictures that might be unrelated to theme subjects unless expressly requested. If sending a photo by post, address it to: 'MaltaToday photo competition', Mediatoday, Vjal ir- Rihan, San Gwann, SGN9016 Please supply your daytime telephone number, your name, your home address and an email address. Send the photo via email on info@mediatoday.com.mt [SUBJECT HEADING: MaltaToday photo competition] by next Friday at 9am. Themes may change from one week to the other F1 refuelling return depends on cost The proposed return of refuelling to Formula One in 2017 will only happen if it is affordable, according to Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff THE move, announced by the gov- erning FIA on Friday, has received a mixed reaction. Some observers have questioned why something banned for cost rea- sons in 2010 was being reintroduced at a time when smaller teams are again feeling the pinch and seeking savings. "Refuelling was banned because of cost and because the pit stops were taking too long," Wolff told the BBC. "But we want to re-explore it and see if we can make pit stops for fuel and tyres happen in the same time it takes to change the tyres now - two to three seconds. "We have agreed to explore this avenue and the cost involved be- cause it could be spectacular. If it's too expensive, we won't do it." The main cost of refuelling in- volves transporting heavy equip- ment around the world and the ex- tra personnel required to handle it. There are also safety considera- tions in pumping fuel into cars in a crowded pit lane in a matter of sec- onds, with the risk of flare-ups. The Formula One Strategy Group, which includes the six top teams and FIA and Bernie Ecclestone's For- mula One Management, also agreed other measures that will now go to the next stage of consideration. They include making cars lighter, louder and considerably faster - "the fastest car on the planet" according to Wolff - as well as more aggressive- looking. The FIA's Formula One commis- sion, which includes all stakehold- ers, and the FIA's supreme body the World Motor Sport Council, must still approve the proposals. "We have agreed to increase the width of the cars and tyres, and have larger front and rear wings. We want to ban the driver-aid aspect of starts, so no pre-calibrated starts and have the drivers start using hand clutch- es," Wolff said of 2017 suggestions. "For now, it will be an evolution of the current cars. But there is an ap- petite for more spectacular aero kit. We want to follow this up but at the moment we will go for evolution and that gives us six months to agree on a more spectacular design." Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain makes a pit stop in Canada