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Criticism for Mika Salo: Hamilton Penalty is "nothing more than a bad joke"

The Russian Grand Prix was partly decided in the stewards' room. Lewis Hamilton missed a win due to the double penalty for making practice starts in the wrong area before the race. Although punishable, German journalist Christian Nimmervoll believes that the Brit should never have received a time penalty for this. "And yet I would have slept very, very badly last night if I had been Commissioner Mika Salo. Because the penalty of five seconds twice, which moves Hamilton's 91st victory to the Nürburgring of all places, is nothing more than a bad joke," Nimmervoll writes for Motorsport-Total.com. Had Nimmervoll been in charge, he would've given Hamilton a warning and a penalty...
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