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Laurence Edmondson
George Russell escaped the punishment and retained his Second place on the Grand Prix in Bahrain After the investigation after the plant is incorrectly used by the system of driving a car (DRS).
Russell was second, behind the winner of the race Oscar PlastriWhen his car encountered a number of electronic problems, including brake problems and problems with the display on its steering wheel.
His car also lost a connection to the automated DRS circuit activation system that exists to ensure that drivers do not use the overtaking DRS aid outside the designated zones and when they are not in the front of the car.
If the car has lost a connection with the DRS circuit activation system, Russell was instructed by its racing engineers to suppress the system and activate it manually if it was within the car.
He was told to use the auxiliary button, which also serves as a backup radio button on the steering wheel. Between the turns 10 to 11 randomly activated DRS as he tried to radio his team, but quickly turned it off and lifted it to compensate for any advantage.
“DRS was activated at a distance of 37 meters to about 700 meters,” the administrators said. “While he got 0.02 seconds, he gave up for 0.28 seconds in another corner to compensate. This was confirmed by telemetry.
“In accordance with this, while technically violated, the administrators decide that because there has been no sporting advantage, there is no punishment.”
Russell said he juggles with a number of problems like McLaren in the last stages of the race Lando Norris He closed and tried to overtake.
“Yeah, it was extremely difficult at the end,” Russell said. “I had various problems with the car.
“I lost all my data on the steering wheel and the brake pedal went into failure mode, so I had to do all these resetting. One minute of the brake worked right, the other wasn’t. So I was quite pleased to see the chess flag to be honest.
“I really don’t know how it happened (with DRS). That was something to do with all these failures we had.
“As soon as I saw that I opened up, I retreated. I lost two tenths of a second.
“It has never happened again. Actually, I didn’t click on the DRS button – I clicked on the next button and opened. As I said, I lost much more than I got – I don’t even get anything open because it was less than a second.”
Mercedes team director praised Russell’s performance more problems, emphasizing how difficult it would be to drive without a fully functioning brake system that activates the rear brakes.
“Suddenly we had a fault after the wire, and then it took a while to find the settings and still reset it, but we did it,” Wolff said.
“And then to be honest, he managed the system, came and left while Norrisa had behind him – it’s just an incredible way to be honest.
“What he did today has secured us this stage. In addition, soft tires have been great for so long, between driving and then attack when he needed it.
“If you haven’t acted a racing car that has a BBW or a conventional brake, it’s like on a road car driving with energy support. Then imagine that you have to adjust between one corner and another. It’s just … that was just a good skill.
“So it was broken wires, you lost GPS, you lost the on -board dr.
