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Mercedes: We first tried DAS a couple of years ago

Mercedes' Dual-Axis Steering (DAS) system is the product of a previous device that was used 'a couple of years ago', the team have revealed. The Silver Arrows' DAS, which caused an immediate firestorm with its debut on the new W11 during preseason testing in Barcelona, had recently been subject to speculation it had appeared prior to this season, and now Mercedes chief designer John Owen has confirmed that to be at least partially the case. “Innovation, there are almost no new ideas, there are only old ideas, but there are different collections of ideas that make a new concept of something different,” he said in a video posted on the team's YouTube channel. “And so the DAS system was...
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