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Alpine convinced they can avoid grid penalties for exhaust usage

Article To news overview © Alpine Alpine executive director Marcin Budkowski admits his team are slightly exposed due to the high number of exhausts they have used from the first 11 Formula 1 events. Teams are allowed to use eight exhausts during the season before they face grid penalties. Esteban Ocon has already gone through seven exhausts whilst Fernando Alonso has used five. No other team has used more than four in the first half of the 2021 F1 season. "We had an issue at the beginning of the year which meant that we limited the mileage of our exhausts to avoid failure during the race and a DNF," Budkowski told RacingNews365.com and other select members of the press....
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