Charlie Whiting believes those drivers that had incidents through Silverstone's new DRS zone have only themselves to blame as it is a 'driver choice' to open the flap. Romain Grosjean was the first big casualty as the Frenchman crashed in Friday's practice after failing to close his DRS. Two days later it was Marcus Ericsson who was buried in the barriers, the Swede revealing he failed to hit the button resulting in his crash. As such F1 race director Whiting reckons the new zone, which led onto the already flat-out Turns 1 and 2, was very much in the hands of the drivers and it was their 'choice' whether to take the chance. He said: “I think the incidents where drivers lost control...
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