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Carey: Liberty not behind Ferrari fan gesture

Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey has said that the idea to let a young Ferrari fan meet Kimi Raikkonen at the Spanish GP was all the Scuderia's own doing. TV cameras captured a tearful Thomas Danel as he watched Raikkonen crash out at the Circuit de Catalunya on the very first lap. But he would then have a day to remember as he was invited to meet his hero in the paddock before going up to watch the podium celebrations. However, Carey revealed that it was no publicity stunt from the new owners and the gesture was in fact indicative of an openess that did not exist in Bernie Ecclestone's reign. “We got all this press about the little boy who got pulled down, and they did it on their own,...
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