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Haas indicate Mercedes' extreme ‘zero pods’ design could be a dud

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has revealed that his team had taken the unique “zero pods” now being exploited by Mercedes under consideration last year, but found that wider sidepods would make for a more efficient chassis. Mercedes rolled into the second pre-season test in Bahrain with extremely thin sidepods on the car to the extent that there were almost none at all. They installed grills on the sides of the car for aerodynamic cohesion and cooling intake, and with Red Bull boss Christian Horner having initially been reported as saying that the design “violated the spirit of the regulations,” he clarified in a press conference that while his rivals’ design was...
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