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Tech analysis: The secrets of the Mercedes steering wheel

Mercedes may have given the appearance from the outside that its four Formula 1 wins from four so far this season have been straightforward, but it has been anything but from inside the cockpit. Indeed, a modern F1 car is a tough beast to manage, and the technical dramas that the team revealed after last weekend's Russian GP – which required both Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg to manage their cars – has highlighted things are never easy in F1. Central to what Rosberg and Hamilton have had to do is their steering wheel, whose array of buttons, rotaries and switches that it's bestowed with perhaps has more in common with a fighter pilot's cockpit. That analogy doesn't end there though,...
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