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Analysis: When does racing car complexity go too far?

Is the bewildering complexity of modern top-level motorsport threatening the quality of the racing? Charles Bradley investigates… To hear a professional racing driver admit “there are things on the wheel that a driver doesn’t know what they’re changing” and “sometimes, all you want to do is drive,” it makes you wonder if the complexity of modern motorsport has gone a step too far. So when Anthony Davidson, a former FIA World Endurance Champion and ex-F1 racer no less, says he “curses the fact” that cars are so complex, then you have to stop and think that the sport has taken a wrong turn. Red Bull's F-Duct system Photo by: XPB Images The last time I felt this strongly...
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