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F1 braced for heated 2017 rules meeting

Formula 1 insiders are anticipating a heated debate in today's Technical Regulations meeting, where the FIA and the 11 team technical representatives will attempt to hammer out a definitive set of aero regulations for 2017. The new rules are intended to meet the mandate handed out last year by the F1 Strategy Group, which was to make cars more difficult to drive and look more spectacular. And although the changes appear to have been agreed by the end of last season, at a meeting in December it was decided to cut back on the previously discussed major hike in downforce. That was mainly because Pirelli demonstrated that higher loadings would require higher tyre pressures, which in turn would...
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