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Mercedes would need ‘months’ to change front wing design

Mercedes has opted for a more conventional front wing design Mercedes is open to the possibility of emulating Ferrari’s front wing design but has cautioned that the fullness of such a project would take months to carry out. This year heralds a number of revisions to aerodynamics regulations ahead of what is anticipated to be as a taste of more dramatic changes come 2021. The front wings are not only 200mm wider and 200mm higher, but feature fewer elements, standardised endplates, no topside canards, and a restriction on underside strakes to two each side. There has been a spectrum of approaches to deal with the changes, ranging from somewhat conventional looking wings to radical new...
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