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Brawn looking to ditch (engine) grid penalties
Though the various issues surrounding his McLaren-Honda package meant that Stoffel Vandoorne was only able to qualify 15th for his home race in Belgium last weekend, grid penalties as a result of numerous additional components meant he started from the back of the grid. Indeed, with a total of 65 grid places forfeited he should have started even further back, hence the numerous jokes at the driver's, team's and sport's expense. Not only have the grid penalties made the sport a laughing stock, especially when drivers are hit with demotions, like Vandoorne's, that far exceed the number of places on the grid, it is widely seen as unfair that the driver is punished for the shortcomings of his...
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