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Stewards are ‘cracking down' on blue flags
F1 race director Michael Masi says the F1 drivers were well aware before Spanish GP that the stewards would 'crack down' on blue flag infringements. Two drivers, Sergio Perez and Daniil Kvyat, were hit with five second penalties for ignoring the blue flags in Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. In a grand prix in which race winner Lewis Hamilton lapped everyone except the two drivers who joined him on the podium, Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas, the marshals had a busy afternoon waving the blue flags. Perez and Kvyat both fell foul of the rule which states that the driver being shown the flag must allow the driver who is coming up to overtake him to do so at the 'first available opportunity'....
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