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FIA more lenient with team-mate clashes

FIA race director, Michael Masi, has said that team-mate crashes are viewed differently in the stewards' room. The stewards decided to take no further action on the Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel crash which resulted in both drivers having to retire from the race at the Red Bull Ring. The replays showed that Leclerc was to blame for the accident and took full responsibility in the paddock afterwards, but the stewards were lenient given the team-mate clash had already resulted in a double DNF for the Scuderia. 'The stewards looked at it at the time and determined the incident didn’t warrant further investigation,' Masi said, as quoted by Motorsport Week. When asked if team-mate...
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