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F1 fans' worst fear is creeping in.. already!

 XPB Images Fears of F1's new regulations failing to improve the overall spectacle of Gran Prix racing crept in after just a few hours of pre-season testing yesterday. The substantial increase in downforce of F1's 2017 cars is impacting the front-end grip of a car tucked behind another, as Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa were quick to point out. "I was behind a couple of cars out there and it was harder to follow, as we expected," said Hamilton. "And then also right now the tyres are so hard that they don't drop off, they just keep going and going and going and going. "So most likely we're going to be doing a lot more one-stopper [races] and, since there's not...
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