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Ericsson puts heavy crash down to false DRS maneuver

Marcus Ericsson endured a sudden exit from Sunday's British Grand Prix, the Sauber driver crashing heavily after entering Abbey with his DRS wide open. The Swede said he had no intention of running full blast through the corner with his DRS open hot on the heels of Force India's Sergio Perez, insisting a botched maneuver inside the cockpit meant he failed to close his rear wing early enough. "I wasn’t sure after the incident if it was a failure or not but we’ve looked at the data and it seems that because I have the button behind my steering wheel - it’s quite bumpy there on entry you go on the kerb - I think I just slipped. I didn’t hit it," he explained. Grosjean...
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