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'F1 will find speed again'

You're 'dreaming' if you think the new technical regulations will inspire overtaking in F1. That's the claim of long time Ferrari test driver Luca Badoer, who steered a 2005-legal F2004 model at Vallelunga on Monday and Tuesday. "I think it'll be just as difficult," he told Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.

He said: "There is less grip, especially in a medium speed corner -- actually, the difference is pretty small."

Badoer last tested at the Roman circuit in mid-October, and lapped two seconds quicker. The Italian, though, thinks it won't be long before teams have clawed back the difference.

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