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Williams: earlier 2016 start ‘really tough’ for F1 teams
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Williams head of engineering performance Rob Smedley claims that starting the 2016 season two weeks earlier than planned will make life “really tough” for all F1 teams in terms of deadlines and logistics. Next year’s campaign is currently scheduled to kick off in Australia on April 3, but it is believed that F1 commercial rights chief Bernie Ecclestone would like to bring the Melbourne opener forward to March 20. “That will be very difficult,” said Smedley. “Two weeks is a lifetime. We have to redo all our plans really. We fine tune the plans to start on the 1st of April or whatever it is and that's really done with no margin in order that we can extract...
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