Renault have received a warning after using an erroneous tyre on Daniel Ricciardo’s car during the FP2 Pirelli 2021 prototype test at the Portuguese Grand Prix. The first 30 minutes of the Friday afternoon practice session was devoted to trialling the potential new tyres for next season, with all teams and drivers obliged to take part. Each team was given three sets of the prototype tyres – from a selection of between eight and 10 different ones – for the half-hour test, with one driver running two sets and the other just one. But it later emerged, via the stewards, that Ricciardo’s car had been fitted with an “incorrect left front tyre from a set of a different...
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