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F1: Another screw up

Stewards opt not to punish Nico Hulkenberg despite his impeding of Carlos Sainz in qualifying. Video showed that the German was driving slowly on the racing line on the approach to Turn 5. Sainz arrived from behind on a push lap and had to abandon the lap. That the Spaniard was impeded was not in dispute, the issue was whether Sainz had been 'unnecessarily' impeded. Audi told the stewards that they believed, based on timing information to which they subscribed, sourced from the official timekeeping provider, that Sainz had already taken the chequered flag and conveyed that information to Hulkenberg by radio. Therefore the German did not expect Sainz to still be on a push lap when he was...
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