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Less overtaking? Whiting points the finger at mid-field teams

FIA race director Charlie Whiting says the biggest factor impacting overtaking in F1 isn't the cars but the competitiveness of the mid-field teams. The 2017 season saw half the number of overtaking moves following the introduction of faster and wider cars. At the outset in Melbourne last year, drivers unanimously declared that the new-spec machines would challenge the art of overtaking, which they effectively did. "The wider cars look great and they've given us more grip, but when they take up more space on the track you have less clean air so it does make following harder," recently said pass master Daniel Ricciardo. Gallery: How did the drivers spend their holiday? But Whiting...
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