Lewis Hamilton's recent claims that F1 had been dumbed down to the point of becoming to too easy physically met with a mixed response from rivals ahead of this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix. Hamilton began the build-up to the event, which takes place on the spectacular Spa-Francorchamps course in the Belgian Ardennes, by claiming that F1's latest technical direction had not met with his belief that the sport should be the pinnacle both technically and in terms of the challenges it placed on the driver. “Personally, I'm not a huge admirer of the direction that everything's going in, in the sense that the cars get slower every year so physically it's easier for me in the car,” Hamilton...
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