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Alpha Tauri turned down 2020 Red Bull rear

Feb.19 Alpha Tauri turned down the opportunity to update its car for 2021 with last year's rear-end and gearbox of sister team Red Bull. Amid the pandemic, and apart from an aerodynamic rule change, chassis design has been essentially paused between 2020 and 2021 apart from a complex ‘token' system. However, as a technical partner of Mercedes', Aston Martin got the green light to upgrade to the 2020 title-winning rear-end without spending a single token. A similar rear-end upgrade would also have been available to Alpha Tauri. 'We decided to leave the rear of the AT01 as it is,' said Alpha Tauri technical director Jody Eggington. 'It wasn't an easy decision,' he told the Japanese...
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