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Don Gale
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#1 Post by Don Gale »

How come Indy cars don't have don't have electro-mechanical actuators to adjust the front wings from the cockpit on the fly? They always have to make minor adjustments in the pits. Seems to me it would be a fairly simple light weight design mod.
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#2 Post by David Jones »

Probably not allowed in the rules Don.
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I had to look up the differences between Formula 1 cars and Indy cars. Interesting stuff.

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