Stoffel Vandoorne has denied his DS Penske squad was trying to steal data from its FormulaE rivals, after being penalised for using a pitlane scanner at the PortlandEPrix Full story ⬇️
was found guilty of gaining a"huge and unfair advantage", according to a stewards' bulletin, from having RFID scanning equipment in the pitlane.
"It was quite a horrible weekend to be honest," Vandoorne told Autosport."Everyone prepares super-hard, and to come here and start from the pitlane is not what we wanted for sure. "That’s not what we did, we were just trying to check what set of tyres others were using, which you can do with a normal camera. The other teams are doing that, they are using photographers in the pitlane. We found a clever way, or an easy way, and we paid a big price for that.Vergne enjoyed the stronger race of the two DS Penske drivers, who were both helped in their bid to catch up the pack from their pitlane starts by two safety car periods in the opening half of the race.
Vandoorne said he felt that having to start from the pitlane ultimately didn't play a major role in the team's result given the extreme need to energy save prevented their rivals from getting away early on.
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