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Next year's new technical rules could prompt a resurgence of overtaking in F1. Dieter Rencken looks at what is being done behind the scenes to make it happen
Evidence of things to come
When Felipe Massa's Ferrari F2008 hit the Circuit de Catalunya with a 'nostriled' nose on Monday it certainly was a sign of things to come - next year.
The Italian team was hard at work in Spain, evaluating the nose - whose principles hark back to the 1968 McLaren M7A, which incorporated NACA ducts in the same area as the F2008's slots are found - for use in a fortnight at the same track, but the design is a taster of 2009, when flips and flaps and flops are banned and alternate means of directing airflow to claw back lost downforce need be found.
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