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FIA will not change rules despite Vettel weighbridge drama

Despite the chaotic scenes in the pitlane during qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix, the FIA will not be changing any rules relating to the weighbridge process. Sebastian Vettel earned a €25,000 fine and a reprimand for driving on and off the scales and damaging them in the process. Vettel and Ferrari were in a rush to fit the soft compound tyres before the rain fell in Brazil, their high-risk strategy of switching to the yellow-walled tyres a bit of gamesmanship over their rivals but the German was yet to set a time when he was called into the FIA weighbridge. In his impatience to get to his pitbox and switch tyres, Vettel damaged the scales by driving off them rather than...
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