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‘That's the million-dollar question no one knows'

James Allison says that how much the new regulations have benefited high-rake cars is a big question that nobody knows the answer to yet. A rule change in the aerodynamics department was introduced for the 2021 season aimed at reducing downforce on the cars. It is widely believed that such a change has had a bigger impact on the teams running low-rake cars, such as Mercedes and Aston Martin, thus benefitting the likes of Red Bull and AlphaTauri in particular. The outright pace of the above teams in the season opener backed up that claim, but Allison says that nobody knows exactly what impact the changes have had yet. 'That is the million-dollar question absolutely no one knows,' the...
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