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Williams suffering from push for greater downforce
Williams head of vehicle performance Dave Robson has admitted that the team's decision to pursue greater levels of downforce in 2021 has left them struggling with too much wind sensitivity. "All aerodynamic cars have a yaw sensitivity and any that don’t simply don’t generate any downforce," Robson said after the Bahrain Grand Prix. "It goes with the territory. “We’ve made it a bit worse [over the off-season]. Not by intention, but it’s part of how you have to make some trades to make some breakthroughs with creating downforce or reducing drag,” Robson said that while the team had been willing to accept an increase in wind sensitivity with this year's FW43B, the...
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