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F1 won't change blue flag rules

Formula 1 will not extend the blue flag margin past its current time of 1.2s, despite Valtteri Bottas calling for just that in Singapore. Chasing Nico Hulkenberg to lap him, Bottas was frustrated with the Renault driver and the stewards as he felt Hulkenberg should have been shown blue flags to move over. The German, though, was more than 1.2s ahead of Bottas meaning there would be no flags until the Finn closed the gap. However, given the nature of the circuit, Bottas was struggling to do just that. Charlie Whiting, though, says the FIA won't extend the margin out to 1.6 or even 1.4s. 'This time last year it was one second, and we had discussions, and we opened it up to 1.2s,' he told...
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