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Massa: Sainz move as bad as Grosjean's race-ban crash

Felipe Massa believes Carlos Sainz deserved a harsher penalty for triggering their crash in Canada, insisting the Spaniard's move was no different to the manoeuvre that earned Romain Grosjean a race ban in 2012. Massa was taken out by Sainz on entry into Turn 3 on the opening lap of the Montreal race, the Toro Rosso driver having lost control after contact with Haas driver Grosjean in the preceding corner. The incident earned Sainz a three-place grid penalty, despite his insistence that the Frenchman had been in the blind spot of his rear-view mirror. But Massa reckons Sainz was let off easy, as the Williams driver evoked Grosjean's accident in the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix – in which the...
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