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F1 teams facing set-up headaches with sensitive 2017 cars
Formula 1 teams believe they need a rethink about how best to approach set-up this year, with the new 2017 cars proving extremely sensitive to changes. One of the characteristics that has emerged since winter testing is that relatively small tweaks to either car or tyre settings can have a big impact on handling. It is why a lot of teams have struggled to find consistency with the feel of their cars over race weekends – with leading outfits Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull all enduring phases in either tests or practice where they fallen out of the ideal set-up window. Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff believes that the way Lewis Hamilton struggled more than Ferrari with tyre degradation...
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