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Bottas: F1 2017 cars tougher to drive in windy conditions

Valtteri Bottas believes that Formula 1’s 2017 cars will be more difficult to drive in windy conditions, which could lead to an increase in the number of spins. The Finn was one of many drivers to have an incident during this week’s first pre-season F1 test, suffering a high-speed spin at Turn 9 on day two after being caught out by a sudden gust of tail wind. While there was some talk about incidents being caused by tyres letting go of their grip and causing snap oversteer, Bottas thinks that wind is actually a bigger contributing factor. “I think in terms of tyres, from my feeling, it is not a massive difference in terms of how sudden the loss of grip is,” explained the Mercedes...
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