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Symonds: Four-second improvement more likely on 2017 cars
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Pat Symonds doubts 2017-spec Formula One cars will lap five seconds faster as originally intended, but thinks “the four-second mark” can be reached at some venues. Next year will see the introduction of more-agressive looking machines, after the FIA issued a blueprint to make the cars more challenging to drive. However, Symonds is not convinced the next breed of F1 chargers will prove much harder to handle than the current generation. “No, not really,” the Williams chief technical officer said over the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend. “They’ve driven cars like this before, it’s nothing like we didn’t have in 2004/5, around then. To give you an example of...
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