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Szafnauer: ‘I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but…'

Aston Martin team principal Otmar Szafnauer says the low-rake teams warned last year that the regulation changes would hurt them. Regulation changes in the aerodynamics department were introduced over the winter, and seem to have benefitted cars running high-rake designs such as the Red Bull and the AlphaTauri. On the flip side, Mercedes and Aston Martin, both of whom use low-rake concepts, have both lost pace and slipped down in the pecking order compared to 2020, with the German team now arguably slower than Red Bull and Aston Martin dropping from the top to the bottom of the midfield. Szafnauer says that, when such changes were being discussed last year, the potential impacts were...
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