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FIA extends main DRS zone for Spanish GP
The FIA has extended the main DRS zone at the Circuit de Catalunya in a bid to help overtaking at the Spanish Grand Prix. The wider and faster 2017 car have resulted in a drop in the number of passing moves this season, with cars struggling to follow each other closer and braking zones becoming shorter. After analysis of the first two races in Australia and China, it was believed that there was no need to change the DRS zones for this year. But a fortnight on from a Russian Grand Prix that resulted in very few overtaking moves, the FIA made a decision on Friday night to lengthen the zone on the main start-finish straight in Spain by 100 metres. The original plan had been for the activation...
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