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Mercedes: DAS 'actually raced on the car a couple years ago'
A clip of Lewis Hamilton qualifying at the 2018 Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix went viral March, as it appeared to show Mercedes using their 'new' Dual-Axis Steering [DAS] system, but was this DAS in action or an optical illusion caused by rain on the camera? Mercedes have hinted that it could just have been the former. In a video shared by the Mercedes team on Wednesday, chief designer John Owen revealed that DAS had been in development for several years and, more interestingly, admitted that the innovation had been used during a race at some point in 2018. Article continues under video “Innovation, there’s almost no new ideas, there’s only old ideas, but there’s different...
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