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Formula 1: Adrian Newey says sport has lost gladiatorial edge

Formula 1 has lost its gladiatorial edge with cars having become too easy to drive, says Adrian Newey. Cars are wider and faster this year, but that has made overtaking more difficult as drivers struggle to follow each other through corners. Newey believes the sport has been heading the wrong way ever since the V6 turbo hybrid engine era began in 2014. "You don't have that gladiatorial feeling that you used to have," Red Bull's chief technical officer said. Hamilton tops Abu Dhabi second practice "If you go back to, for instance Ayrton Senna, on board footage of him at Monaco in 1990, you think 'how on earth can he drive a car like that?' You think you could never do that in...
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