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Bottas: DAS has been in pipeline for a year
Valtteri Bottas says Mercedes’ Dual-Axis System has been in
development for over a year, and is hopeful that it will give the team a
performance advantage. Mercedes fitted the DAS – which enables the steering wheel
to move back and forth along the straights, adjusting the toe angle – for the
final two days of Formula 1’s opening test in Spain. Its legality was queried in some quarters but quickly
clarified by Mercedes’ technical boss James Allison, while the FIA says it has
no safety concerns over the device. Mercedes dominated the first test atop the timesheets as
Bottas clocked a time of 1:15.732s leaving the W11 over 1.3s faster than the
next-quickest package. “Obviously...
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