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Hamilton hopes engineers are wrong as F1 2017 overtaking fears mount
Lewis Hamilton has been told by his Mercedes engineers that overtaking will be “a lot harder” in the new-spec Formula 2017 machinery. Speaking to the BBC ahead of today’s 2017 Mercedes F1 W08 launch, Hamilton also criticised the Drag-Reduction System – which artificially creates a speed differential between the cars to promote overtaking – as a “band-aid for the wrong rule changes”. “My engineers say it’s going to be a lot harder to overtake,” said Hamilton of the faster, more aggressive-looking cars. “If we see overtaking is worse, it’s going to be worse for the fans, the spectacle will be worse, so I’m hoping that’s not the case. “Because it’s a bigger,...
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