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Voting irregularities denies Haryanto driver of the day
Manor rookie Rio Haryanto actually won the popular vote as F1 debuted its new official ‘driver of the day' plaudit in Australia. Many were surprised in the hours after the 2016 season opener when the results of the poll were not published. Belatedly, the winner was declared as having been Romain Grosjean, who powered team newcomer Haas to debut points in Melbourne. 'In the interests of fairness,' the official F1 website explained, 'multiple votes identified as originating from the same source were not counted.' Indeed, unofficial statistics posted by Twitter users showed that it was in fact Indonesian rookie Haryanto who won, having attracted more than 22,000 votes in comparison to...
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