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Neil Oatley: designing World Championships with McLaren

F1: Beyond The Grid

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The Evolution of the FWA-07

The FWA-07 ended up doing three seasons. How did you tweak it from one to the next? I think 17 to 1980 was an evolution. There were some regulation changes for 1981, which got a bit complicated with the right-type rules and so on,. So that was probably more a significant change for 1981. Also, we had a fairly unusual step where we switched from good year or some Michelin to good year tyres in mid-season, which would be unthinkable now. That seems an extraordinary thing.

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