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Mercedes pay price of success with less tunnel time
Mercedes, winners of the 2020 championship, are paying the price for last year's success with their wind tunnel development time less than what their rivals are permitted. This season Formula 1 has a new rule, one governing time spent in the wind tunnel. In a bid to level the playing field, or at least try to, there is a new sliding scale that dictates the amount of time a team can spend in the wind tunnel and using CFD. The better the previous year's results, the less time. As such Mercedes, the 2020 champions, have less time than Red Bull who in turn have less than McLaren, and so it goes with Williams, bottom of the log, given more time than any other team. 'We have, for many years now,...
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