Williams has been fined 10,000 Euro for a breach of the tyre rules in Friday practice for the Belgian Grand Prix. Formula 1 teams are supposed to hand back one set of tyres from their allocation after the first 40 minutes of opening practice – although this can be delayed slightly if the session is affected by a red flag. This delay happened on Friday thanks to Felipe Massa's accident, but Williams was found to have run one of these nominated sets on Lance Stroll's car at 11.09am and 11.21am. The FIA looked into the matter and, although Williams openly admitted it had made a mistake, the governing body decided that a fine was necessary because of previous offences. A statement from the...
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