Michael Masi Formula 1 race director Michael Masi maintains that stewards should take the time to ensure their decisions are correct, even if they drag on well past race finish. The last two races have seen post-race penalties which have changed the result, although with vastly different timeframes. Daniil Kvyat’s penalty for his final lap incident with Nico Hulkenberg in Mexico was handed down before provisional results had officially been issued. A fortnight earlier in Japan, however, Charles Leclerc’s two penalties relating to his Lap 1 run-in with Max Verstappen were announced more than two hours after the finish. “In the stewards view, if they've got an element of doubt, they...
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