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Changes made to Saudi track to improve visibility

Saudi Arabia Grand Prix organisers have revealed that they made small changes to the Jeddah circuit ahead of its second event in order to improve visibility in the final sector. The adjustments were introduced after a number of Formula 1 drivers raised concerns about the high-speed nature of the final sector of the 6.174km street circuit, which features the most number of corners of any circuit on the schedule with an official 27 turns. The track played host to an extremely entertaining inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in December which was won by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton. The concerns raised by the drivers surrounded the positioning of some of the barriers in the final sector...
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