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Ferrari fined £13,000 for illegal DRS use
Fernando Alonso has escaped a penalty for using his DRS when he shouldn't have, with the race stewards instead opting to hand the Ferrari team a £13,000 fine. The issue was spotted by FIA technical delegate Jo Bauer who analysed the DRS data from Alonso's F138 and found the system had been used on three occasions when it shouldn't have been. According to an FIA statement, the team failed to change the settings from "pre-race" to "race mode", meaning he received the "DRS enabled" message despite being outside the one second gap needed to activate it. "The DRS enabling system was not changed by the team from the pre-race to the race setting. The driver...
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