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...How 'black technology' could have been used in F1. Is the truth out there?
It was like an episode of The X-Files set in the F1 paddock. Science fiction and conspiracy all rolled into one. Implications of 'black technology' - the sensitive stuff that's so super-secret that governments deny its existence; disguise budgets as something else. Some of it had somehow bled into F1.
It was said that a leading team had purchased a trial of a radical new surface process that increased downforce for no penalty in drag - the holy grail of any aerodynamicist.
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MPH: Mark Hughes on...
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