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Skipping final chicane at Barcelona is not an option for F1 cars

The Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona has been part of the F1 calendar for thirty years now and for this season the Spanish circuit has a new change. Turn ten is not a difficult and slow corner, but by changing it the organisation hopes the drivers will be able to maintain more speed towards the third sector. In an exclusive interview with GPblog, the general manager of Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Jose Luis Santamaria, explained they expect a lot from the change. “We have modified turn ten, so now it looks more like the historical one. Now it looks like how it was at the first Grand Prix in 1991. For safety reasons, we have modified the turn. The shape of the turn is more or less the...
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