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Alfa Romeo's F1 floor mystery: A launch red herring or a design dead end?

When Valtteri Bottas took the new car out of the garage in Barcelona for the first time, it was running a completely different floor to the original renders from when it was revealed.

On the real car, it was a much more traditional edge compared to the radical serrated side that had been present on launch day. In fact, so unique was the jagged floor that it looked like the sort of thing that would be used as a tyre cutter in Wacky Races.

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