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Lights Out: April Fools and overtaking solutions

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Lights Out: April Fools and overtaking solutions

By Joas van Wingerden.
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If it's good enough for the Formula 1 world champion, it's good enough for GP Fans! Lewis Hamilton wasn't the only one playing pranks on April Fool's Day, but we have fingers crossed that Ross Brawn's claims about fixing overtaking in F1 weren't a gag! It's lights out for Monday morning!

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Right, back to serious business. Overtaking has become something of an issue in F1.

The number of passes in 2017 was almost half as much in 2016 and five overtakes at the Australian Grand Prix does not suggest a fix is in place.

Brawn has a team of technical geniuses working on a way to fix the "force field" around modern-day F1 cars. But we might have to wait for the solution!

Daniel Ricciardo has an idea. Smaller, slower cars. It could just work!

The Haas of Romain Grosjean was one of the cars that Ricciardo struggled to pass in Melbourne.

The American team surprised us all in Australia, but there are no guarantees they will maintain that eye-catching pace, says Kevin Magnussen.

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