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‘Clever’ Mercedes dodges camera mount ruling

Mercedes has found a clever way around the issue of reportedly ‘illegal' camera mountings at the front of its title-defending 2015 car. Earlier, we reported that teams including Ferrari and Toro Rosso had also been told by the FIA to modify their new cars before scrutineering in Australia. Designers for the respective teams had shaped the mandatory, nose-positioned camera mountings aerodynamically, but the FIA had ruled that they were too long. Last week in Barcelona, it was clear Toro Rosso had already reacted to the clarification, abandoning the stylised, wing-like ‘ears' and simply mounting the brackets to the chassis horizontally. Indeed, that horizontal positioning is...
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