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Manor to stick with longer nose concept

Manor suggests it is likely to stick with its longer nose concept for 2016, even though many of its rivals have adopted a short version for this season. The nose on the Banbury-based team's MRT05 is the longest of the designs currently revealed, and will have been simpler to conceive than the short noses that can be expensive to make strong enough to pass F1's mandatory crash tests. With Manor open that it does not have the development budget of other teams, it has to be more selective about what parts of the car it spends money on improving. And although there are gains to be had from having a short nose, it thinks it could get a bigger impact tweaking other areas of the car. When asked by...
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