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Symonds questions Mercedes tyre management, strategy calls

Formula 1’s Chief Technical Officer Pat Symonds says Mercedes’ long-standing problems with tyre management is being exposed by the closer performance levels between its front-running rivals, while he has also questioned the team’s recent strategy calls. The former Renault and Williams technical chief joined the new-look F1 management team at the end of 2017 to help step up the sport’s research drive into potential 2021 rules to provide closer racing and greater team parity. In an F1 media release, Symonds has given his early assessment on each team’s prospects after the opening three races and feels Mercedes is losing its dominance in the sport partly down to a long-term issue...
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