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Analysis: Why starts have become F1 drivers' biggest headache

When Formula 1 included tweaks to the race start procedures as part of a clampdown on driver aids last year, few could have imagined the impact that they would have on this season’s championship. For as the campaign enters its decisive final phase, it is becoming increasingly clear that the points battle between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton is getting influenced perhaps more by how the first seconds of the race goes than almost any other time they are out on track. Pace wise there has been very little separating the pair but when it has come to on-track tussles, but stumbles in the charge to the first corner have meant that they are rarely fighting wheel-to-wheel on a Sunday afternoon....
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