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F1 tweaks blue flag rules for Azerbaijan GP

Formula 1’s blue flag procedures have been tweaked for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix following recent complaints from drivers about the difficulties of lapping traffic this year. While backmarkers are supposed to move aside for lead cars as soon as they get given a blue flag warning, the timing of that alert was changed for the start of this season. While the slower cars should get a pre-warning from their teams when leaders are three seconds behind them, an official automatic trigger point for blue flags and lights in the cockpit was reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1.0 seconds for the start of 2017. Although the change in gap does not seem like a lot, the need to get closer to get past –...
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