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Renault gets yellow card from FIA after tyre mix up

The Renault F1 team was hit with a warning by the FIA after the French outfit mixed up its tyres during the Pirelli development test conducted in FP2 at Portimão. Teams were compelled to test Pirelli's 2021 prototype tyres in the first 30 minutes of Friday's afternoon practice, with one driver in each outfit trialing a single set of the experimental rubber on a long run while the other tested two sets - a baseline and a prototype set - back-to-back. But confusion ensued in the Renault camp during the trial when the team unintentionally mixed up the two sets allocated to Daniel Ricciardo, the Aussie running three tyres from one set, and one tyres from another. The blunder was reported to...
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