Teams will meet over DRS worries after Ericsson mega crash

Formula One's Technical Working Group is set to meet ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix to discuss worries over DRS. It comes after Marcus Ericsson suffered a spectacular 200mph crash at Monza due to a DRS failure.

The failure of the rear wing to reattach itself after Ericsson hit the brakes going into the turn one chicane at Monza pitched the Swede into the wall and into the air, rolling down the track having dug into the grass on the outside of the track.

"We’ve got a technical working group meeting on Thursday, and we’re going to discuss that,” Whiting told Autosport. “We checked a lot of DRS systems on the cars after qualifying, to make sure that none of them could do what the Sauber’s did.

“Theirs effectively had a stop but the stop was easy to override, and it could go over the centre and when it closed – when the driver brakes or goes off the throttle above a certain threshold – it’s slow to close because it has gone over the centre. They (Sauber) put these stops in it to make sure it couldn’t happen again.”

Ericsson was unharmed after his crash and was given the all clear by the FIA to race at Monza on the Sunday. A bigger worry for the teams might be that Nico Hulkenberg was kept out of finishing practice after Renault discovered a DRS issue with his car also.