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Norris: Shutdown creates ‘level playing field'

Lando Norris believes the five-week shutdown creates a 'level playing field' because the top teams can't develop their cars. With the first nine rounds of the 2020 season called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Formula 1 brought forward the three-week shutdown period usually seen in August and extended it to five weeks. And Norris believes this helps to level the playing field in F1, because Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull, who have the biggest budgets, are unable to put that to good use right now and develop their cars. “No one in this current period right now can be developing and doing anything in terms of trying to make the cars quicker, apart from being at home and thinking about...
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