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Reliability check of Alpine steering wheel not unnecessary in Canada

During FP1 of the Canada GP, Pierre Gasly stalled. It involved an error message from his steering wheel. Remarkably, it was his spare steering wheel he was using at the time. Article continues under ad Alpine has both drivers drive at least one lap with the spare steering wheel every weekend to check reliability. That the team does so appears to be for good reason. During FP1 in Canada, it was precisely because of the spare steering wheel that things went wrong for Gasly. The Frenchman stalled because of an error message. Alpine checks not unnecessary Team boss Otmar Szafnauer said after Friday's race: "We always do. We run the spare steering wheels on both cars and the reason we run...
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