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McLaren Curious To See If Other Teams Will Copy Their New Diffuser

McLaren attracted the attention of rival teams during pre-season testing in Bahrain due to the unique design of their 2021 car’s diffuser. READ: Sebastian Vettel Willing To Accept ‘Horrible’ Car As Long As It’s Quick The Woking-based team is seemingly trying to find lap time by exploiting a loophole in the technical regulations to help them offset some of the rear downforce lost as a result of the 2021 regulation changes. “McLaren have found a little loophole in the dimensional technical regulations relating to the rear floor, and they’ve increased the size of these end fences around the gearbox casing, the underside of the gearbox casing, on their car,” F1 technical expert...
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