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Verstappen: New F1 cars more 'controllable' in dirty air

Max Verstappen says F1's new-spec cars are now more "controllable" when running in the wake of another car, and no longer suffer from sudden moments of understeer or oversteer. The primary objective of Formula 1's new regulations was to spawn a new generation of cars where the use of ground effects minimizes the amount of dirty air spiraling in a car's wake, thus allowing drivers to follow each other more closely in corners which in turn should improve wheel-to-wheel action. While next weekend's season opening Bahrain Grand Prix will put the new cars to their first full-scale test, Verstappen believes the rules are fulfilling their initial objective based on a few moments in...
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