Charlie Whiting says that the crashes that happened last weekend at Silverstone were because of the "driver choice" and not the DRS like some have suggested. The FIA included a new third DRS zone at Silverstone and this included the Abbey and Farm corners. This opened the possibility to speed through these corners with an open DRS. Haas driver Romain Grosjean was brave enough to do this, however it didn't pay off for the Frenchman in Fridays practice as the Haas driver crashed straight into the barriers. Sauber's Marcus Ericsson lost control at the same turn on Sunday. Ericsson blamed it on his inability to close the car's DRS quick enough as he ended the race in the barriers....
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