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Brawn agrees with call for lighter F1 cars

Formula 1 sporting manager Ross Brawn says the sport's future cars will shed some significant weight compared to current levels. Williams' Paddy Lowe recently underlined the gradual increase in F1's minimum weight in the last decade which, in the view of the British team's technical director, has moved Grand Prix closer to endurance racing . "If F1 is really a sprint formula, and these cars are meant to be incredibly quick for qualifying and for the race in one hour and a half, 300km race, so they’re not endurance cars yet the weight has been increasing to levels that are getting towards an endurance formula rather than a sprint one," said Lowe Dramatic weight increase in F1...
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