Our reflection on the 2017 season continues with the main takeaways of an action-packed campaign. Ferrari's good car needs to become a great one, it's make-or-break time for McLaren and a word on the inconsistent stewarding. Finding the balance between the spectacular and the spectacle The cars that took to the tracks in 2017 delivered on pre-season promises of increased speed, with Pirelli data showing, for example, showing that the cars navigated Copse at Silverstone at 290kph this year compared with 260kph in 2016. The aesthetics, especially the front profile of the 2017 vintage, are also a marked improvement on the narrow cars that came before, which in hindsight are so narrow that...
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