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Masi responds to Max's Safety Car complaints

Michael Masi has rubbished Max Verstappen's claims that Race Control opted to deploy the Safety Car at the Eifel GP just to 'make it more exciting'. 15 laps before the end of Sunday's Eifel Grand Prix, the Safety Car was brought out when Lando Norris parked his McLaren on the side of the track. Stopping at the Dunlop Curve, Race Control felt that a full Safety Car was needed in order to recover Norris' car. That meant the field was bunched up with drivers unlapping themselves and those at the front, especially race leader Lewis Hamilton and second placed Verstappen, worried about their tyres growing cold as they waited for that to play out. Verstappen reckons it was a deliberate ploy by...
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