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Following fancy car overtaking on bends (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

flexures

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'bends' is the definition.
('flexure' can be a synonym of 'bend')

'following fancy car overtaking on' is the wordplay.
'following' becomes 'f' (used when citing page numbers etc).
'fancy car' becomes 'lexus' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'overtaking' means one lot of letters goes inside another (a word 'takes over' another set of letters).
'on' becomes 're' (regarding).
'lexus' placed around 're' is 'lexures'.
'f'+'lexures'='FLEXURES'

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