The Circuit Paul Ricard – venue of the French Grand Prix weekend, Round 8 of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship – provides both teams and drivers with a very different challenge to the past two races, which have been held on narrow tracks, with walls in very close proximity to the cars. That is certainly not the case in France, where large run-off areas dominate the track perimeter. Additionally, all personnel involved are faced with the prospect of a new circuit on which very limited data is available. Downforce vs Drag Being a new circuit, there will most likely be a little more experimentation than normal during practice on different downforce levels in order to obtain...
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