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Warwick: Webber penalty not ‘health and safety gone mad’

Former F1 driver turned FIA race steward Derek Warwick insists that punishing Mark Webber for running onto the Marina Bay track to hail a lift back to the pits was entirely justified – even if the decision has not been welcomed by either the fans or Webber himself.Having already accrued two reprimands for driving offences earlier in the year, a third slap on the wrist triggered an automatic ten-place grid penalty for the Australian at next month's Korean Grand Prix.Webber has made his feelings known via a series of Twitter posts – adding a selection of images showing similar F1 'taxi rides' over the years that included one shot of Warwick straddling the engine cover of Gerhard Berger's...
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