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Gutiérrez calls for rethink on unsafe release penalties

– Sauber driver Esteban Gutiérrez believes that penalties for an unsafe release from a pit stop need to be reconsidered after he was hit with a 10 place grid drop for this weekend's British Grand Prix.Gutiérrez was released from his first stop in Austria without the front right wheel securely attached, and while he quickly stopped the car he was slapped with the mandatory five second stop/go penalty, along with the grid penalty. The Mexican believes that penalising a driver for a team error is too severe a sanction."I think it's too harsh as in our case the wheel didn't come off the car," he told journalists, including GPUpdate.net. "I felt it straight away and I...
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