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F1 2017 cars unlikely to be five seconds quicker - Symonds
Formula 1's 2017 cars are set to miss the target of delivering a five-second per lap improvement, and may even produce hardly any gain at low-downforce tracks like Monza, reckons Williams tech chief Pat Symonds. As teams continue to prepare their cars for the major rules shake-up that is coming for next year, Symonds has said that talk of F1 cars being so fast that drivers may struggle to manage them is wide of the mark. Instead, he suggests the lap times will be similar to what drivers experienced around a decade ago – so only a few seconds quicker than now. "They have driven cars like this before and it is nothing we didn't have around 2004/2005," said Symonds. "To give...
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