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Formula 1 looking for loopholes in 2021 regulations

Formula 1 chief technical officer Pat Symonds has been hard at work with his team defining the Grand Prix car of the future, but also investigating how the sport's 2021 rules could be abused. F1 released footage this week of a prospective 2021-spec car being tested in the wind tunnel, with the images depicting a relatively unsophisticated design that has yielded great results in terms of the air wake that trails off the car and impacts a following car's downforce. According to Nikolas Tombazis, the FIA’s Head of Single Seater Technical Matters, the design reduces the following car's downforce by 5-10 percent -- a massive improvement over the current level of 50 percent. But the extensive...
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