The British of Mercedes, who closed second, told at the end of the race: “I pressed the radio button and opened the DRS. I pressed immediately to close it, surely I did not get advantages”
Over suspended positions at the end of the Bahrain GP waiting for decisions for a possible penalty of five seconds to George Russell who would change the first positions. Under investigation an accidental opening of DRS for the British of Mercedes when he could not have done it, abundantly above the second of the plate gap that preceded him: ranking in hand, with a penalty he would go down to fourth place, with the transition to second place of Lando Norris on McLaren (finished at 0 “7) and the third of Charles Leclerc on Ferrari (finished at 4” 1).
what happened
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Around the 52nd lap, the images immortalized Russell’s Mercedes with the open DRS where he had no reason to be, given the wide detachment of the British from the tread Plastri: “We had any kind of problem today – he said hot at the end of the Russell Grand Prix – at a certain point I pressed the radio button and the DRS opened. I pressed immediately to close it, I certainly had no advantage”. The Mercedes pilot had told the unexpected immediately during the race in a radio team.
how it works
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The DRS works so that the pilot receives, when it is under the second of detachment from those who precede it, a signal to manually activate the opening of the system. The problem is that at some point the Mercedes control unit stopped working, so the box asked to be able to move on to the manual mode of the opening of the DRS. Russell thus found himself being able to open it in every area of the track without being under the second by those who preceded him: in his said one he has mistakenly opened it in place of the radio. And realistically it cannot have taken a great advantage of it.
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“Russell lost the transproner so we didn’t have the times on the wall, not even the GPS: there was an override of the system, it had to make the decision on its own,” commented the situation as an opponent, the Team Principal of Ferrari Frederic Vasseur who, before the pronouncement of the investigation, acquitted the British of Mercedes: “I think it was a mistake in that lap because I had no one in front, They will penalize because he had no advantage: he didn’t do it on purpose “.
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