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Stewards didn't hear McLaren's Bottas complaint
Michael Masi says the Styrian Grand Prix stewards did not need McLaren’s complaint to activate an investigation into Valtteri Bottas’ pit-lane spin. In fact, they had not even heard it, with the FIA race director ready to alert the team of stewards himself had they not taken swift action to look into the incident. During FP2 on Friday afternoon, Bottas spun his Mercedes between 90 and 180 degrees adjacent to the McLaren garage and pit wall after experimenting with launching from his ‘box’ in second gear. McLaren team manager Paul James got straight on to race director Masi and was heard saying over the radio system: “That’s absolutely ridiculous…he could have taken our guys...
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