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‘Completely new track layout' for French GP?
Eric Boullier, strategic advisor for the French GP, says major changes could be coming to the layout of Paul Ricard. Circuit chiefs have been in discussions with the FIA and FOM over ways to boost overtaking at the venue after a dismal 2019 French GP. Motorsport.com report that such changes could include alterations to the chicane on the Mistral Straight to make it tighter, as well as a third DRS zone before Signes and an all-new layout in the first section of the track. Boullier, the former Renault and McLaren boss turned advisor for the French GP, has been in talks with FIA race director Michael Masi and the FOM about possible changes, and he says they have come back to him with a...
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