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Max Verstappen: Overtaking benefit of 'uglier' 2019 cars will be 'limited'

Max Verstappen reckons the benefit provided by the 'uglier' 2019 front-wings will be 'limited', and therefore isn't expecting overtaking to become much easier as a result. Formula 1 will adopt simpler front-wings next season as part of a plan to allow cars to follow more closely and therefore boost overtaking, but the Red Bull driver isn't buying into the claimed benefits and reckons they'll make the cars look worse. 'It might help a little bit, but what I'm already reading is that next year we'll have about the same downforce as this year, so I think that the benefit will be limited,' he told his personal website. 'It only looks somewhat uglier, but maybe the...
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