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2006 US GP Technical Review

Craig Scarborough analyses the technical aspects of the Indy weekend - plus his take on the FIA's standard ECU tender, which Microsoft won this week

Indianapolis brought the Formula One season quite fittingly into its second half. We have now seen every type of circuit, from slow to fast, and in Indy's case a mix of extreme slow and fast.

In the previous races at the brickyard, with the V10 engines, the cars ran quite a lot of downforce - such was the power from the engines that the gains the cars could make on the slow infield section were not offset by the slower top speed on the main straight.

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