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New rules will produce "meaner" F1 cars - McLaren

McLaren technical director Tim Goss thinks the new Formula 1 regulations will produce cars that look "mean" and "cool". This year's F1 cars will feature wider tyres and significantly enhanced aerodynamics, with the aim of reducing laptimes by several seconds. "The 2017 cars will look pretty similar to the layman, but the aero guys have been battling to correct flow-structures at different ride heights for months and months now," Goss said in an article explaining the 2017 rule changes posted on McLaren's website. "We've had to rethink lots of different areas on the car, because they're behaving differently to how they did before." "These 2017...
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