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Mercedes plans major upgrades for first race

Mercedes is targeting getting a significant amount of upgrades onto its 2020 Formula 1 car in time for the first race of the season in Austria, despite the shutdown period since March. The F1 teams had to abide by lockdown restrictions in their own countries but were also bound by the mandatory FIA shutdown period over the past three months, with a total of nine weeks enforced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite that spell of being unable to work, Mercedes technical director James Allison says the way that the car’s development schedule evolves means a number of upgrades could still be ready by Austria. “We haven’t yet done a single race but actually quite a lot of time has...
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