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F1 drivers warned over grid positions after Vettel incident
F1 drivers have been told that anyone copying Sebastian Vettel’s strategy of starting outside his grid box in China is likely to get a penalty, after the German himself escaped without sanction. The subject was discussed at a heated drivers’ briefing on Friday evening, when Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton were among the loudest voices as drivers questioned the decision that saw Vettel go unpenalised. Race director Charlie Whiting told the drivers that the start rules have not changed for 20 years, and in that time there have only been two extreme cases of drivers being to the left or right of the their grid boxes – Daniel Ricciardo in Japan last year, which went...
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