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Brazilian Grand Prix Technical Preview

The Autódromo José Carlos Pace, venue for the Brazilian Grand Prix, provides teams with many of the challenges they faced two weeks ago in Mexico, albeit on a smaller scale. The track is at 800 meters altitude, which decreases the air density by a little under 10%, and pushes teams to run higher downforce set-ups together with larger cooling configurations. In terms of the track layout, this is also similar to the last race, as straight-line speed dependent sections are mixed with tighter sequences of corners. Downforce vs Drag As mentioned above, teams are pushed to run more downforce than would normally be the case for a track of this nature thanks to the altitude. However, those...
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