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Hill: Driving standards above board

Damon Hill believes F1 racing is cleaner these days than in the past, thanks partly to the self-policing amongst drivers. Although last season there were several controversial instances, which most notably resulted in Romain Grosjean's one-race ban, dirty racing has become a thing of the past. The days of deliberately crashing into a rival, a move that resulted in Hill's nemesis Michael Schumacher being excluded from the 1997 Championship, are gone, replaced by strict stewarding and self-policing. "There was a time when it was very controversial," the 1996 World Champ told Pitpass. "There were drivers who overstepped the aggressiveness threshold and appeared to be condoned...
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