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Ferrari won't quit smoking, but Whiting won't intervene
FIA race director Charlie Whiting says the governing body has no plans of intervening over the issue of Ferrari's smoking SF71-H. The unusual phenomenon started over winter testing, when every time Ferrari fired up its new SF71-H, the car expired a heavy cloud of oily smoke, engulfing the Scuderia's garage and those of its neighbors. Once a heavy smoker himself, Mercedes non executive chairman Niki Lauda admits to being regularly inconvenienced by the Scuderia's heavy fumes linked to the car's oil breather. "We suffocate in our garage every time they start it," Lauda told Auto Motor und Sport. "The FIA should look into it." Whiting hints at procedure changes to stop...
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