Formula 1 race director Michael Masi has moved to further defend his decision to allow cars on-track with a crane still on-track during qualifying for the Turkish Grand Prix, while maintaining his team will 'learn' from the incident. A decision that was met with an immediate backlash, Masi and race control opted to start the wet second session of qualifying while a recovery vehicle was still working to move the stranded Williams of Nicholas Latifi from Q1. Afterwards, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel said there was 'zero tolerance' for the mistake, and that a further investigation was necessary. In his own remarks on Saturday, Masi said that with the benefit of hindsight, he would've 'handled it...
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