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'Wide cars' not helping overtaking cause - Ricciardo
Daniel Ricciardo, the boldest of Formula 1's drivers when it comes to overtaking, believes the width of the current spec cars isn't making his already difficult task any easier. The sport introduced its wider, high-downforce machines at the start of the 2017 season to promote speed but the faster lap times have clearly come to the detriment of overtaking. The issue was underlined once again last week, in the opening round of the world championship in Melbourne, during a race where only a handful of legitimate overtakes were recorded. Drivers have pointed to the effects of downforce and the subsequent turbulent air left in a car's wake as the culprits for the reduction in overtaking...
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