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Brawn explains reasons for Merc slump
Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn believes changes to his squad's aerodynamic department coupled with other technical adjustments played a major role in their slump last season.
The Brackley squad looked like they would challenge for several race victories in 2012 after Nico Rosberg won the Chinese Grand Prix from pole position.
However, it was a false dawn as they could only manage two more podium places in the next 17 races and finished a distant fifth in the Constructors' Championship.
Brawn, though, feels that the departure of head of aerodynamics Loic Bigois, changes to their windtunnel philosophy as well as experiments with the Coanda exhausts and double DRS were to blame for their...
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