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	BBC Sport Online motorsport editor Andrew Benson is your guide to Germany

The layout of Hockenheim is changing dramatically this year.

The new track - illustrated above - dispenses with the long straights that had become the venue's signature.

That will change the character of the event, but will also bring it more into line with modern F1 convention.

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