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Ricciardo on tracks with low grip: 'Robbery of F1 teams'

In Turkey, the drivers again suffered a lot from low grip, in this case caused by a newly laid track. Although the low grip tracks are seized upon by some as bringers of sensation, Daniel Ricciardo can't wait for them to be taken off the calendar again.  Ricciardo argues that such tracks go against the main goal of the teams: to make a car as fast as possible. “I think as well when teams are spending so much money developing cars and putting all the knowledge into designing the fastest race cars in the world, not being able to use them….if it was all the time, it would feel like a robbery.” “It's like why are we putting so much into these cars if we can't...
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