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Radio confusion leads to grid penalty for Ocon

Esteban Ocon has been given a three-place grid penalty ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix for failing to slow sufficiently for red flags. The Force India driver had reduced his speed below the delta time but was then confused by some beeps he heard over the radio. 'The driver informed the stewards, and the telemetry showed, that he had slowed down for the red flags,' the stewards noted. 'However, after Turn 4, he heard some beeps on his radio that suggested that he was too slow and sped up briefly to regularize his speed.  'In doing so, he briefly exceeded the delta by a maximum of -1.68 over three mini sectors. 'As a result, he had failed to maintain the speed delta required under the...
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