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Renault’s Bob Bell welcomes move to 18-inch wheels

class="left relative"> Share Tweet Share Share Email Top F1 engineer Bob Bell has welcomed news of the likely switch from 13 to 18 inch wheels for 2021. In fact, the change to modern-looking wheels could arrive a year earlier in 2020. 'I think it would be a good step,' said Renault technical director Bob Bell. 'It gives the cars are more modern look, and it should also attract other tyre manufacturers.' Force India's Andy Green, however, is not as keen. 'For me that's not formula one. But if they want to go that way, it's ok. To me it looks a bit Formula E,' he told Auto Motor und Sport. But Bell thinks a big benefit will be correlation between wind tunnels and the track, as...
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