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[email protected] www.crp-group.com www.crp-usa.net ADV-WF-F1-210x297-feb2017.indd 1 20/02/2017 10:15:11 CONTENTS/COMMENT Racing improves the breed one, it seems, are the days when is a danger that the skill will be lost if the cars engineering excellence delivered continue down this current path. CONTENTS an outstanding result. Decisions Maybe I don’t need to worry. F1’s in good 4 THE DANGER FACTOR Gtoday seem to be based on hands, and I hope that the technical regulations Peter Wright assesses the analysis of fairness and equality. Racing is no longer simply are opened up suffi ciently under the new risk in modern Formula 1 racing about winning; today’s decisions are based on management to allow technical innovation. Ross encouraging more competitors, and therefore Brawn’s most recent title was thanks to a clever 6 F1 TEST UPDATE more money. The new Formula 1 regulations for double diff user, and throughout the history of F1, The Barcelona tests showed the cars 2017 appear to bear this out. In an interview with engineers have been free to experiment. to be as quick as expected, but also Racecar Engineering (October 2016, V26N10), Max One thing that is clearly lacking in F1 at very sensitive to set-up changes Mosley admitted that the reason for hybridisation the moment is the need for the drivers to look 10 CFD ANALYSIS of F1 was to give the manufacturers more after the car during a race.