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Vettel: It is a steering wheel not a push or pull wheel…

Sebastian Vettel took a keen interest in the Mercedes Dual-Axis Steering (DAS) wheel and feels it is a device which requires a lot of driver adaptability but if it provides a performance edge and is legal and safe with the FIA then it could be the way forward. The Ferrari driver joined the rest of the F1 paddock in taking an eager eye to the unusual Mercedes steering wheel movements, with Lewis Hamilton appearing to pull the wheel towards him on the straights before pushing it back to its original position under braking. The device appears to trigger a wheel movement, changing the angle of the front wheels, which Mercedes technical director James Allison described as a Dual-Axis Steering...
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