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To step or not to step?
February 8th, 2013 (F1plus / Chris Cameron-Dow) - When the first 2012 F1 cars were launched at the beginning of last year, it quickly became obvious that the defining visual feature of the cars would be their stepped noses - all barring the Mclaren and Marussia had a noticeable step between the chassis and the nose. The steps were declared "ugly" and the regulations tweaked to allow the steps to be covered from 2013 onwards. The new rules allow for a non-structural "vanity panel" to be installed on the nose which would hide the step. The panel is intended to be purely cosmetic which, unfortunately for the rule-makers, made it largely irrelevant to the design of a...
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