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Unsafe releases 'looking less and less like a coincidence' - Whiting
FIA race director Charlie Whiting is casting a suspicious eye on the two high profile 'unsafe releases' which have occurred this season, in Melbourne and in Bahrain. After a double pitstop blunder in Australia saw both Haas drivers rejoin the race with a loose rear wheel only to retire a few hundred yards up the road, Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was the subject of an unsafe release at Sakhir last Sunday. The mishap not only led to his demise, but also inflicted injury on a Scuderia who was sent tumbling with a broken leg as the Finn accelerated away prematurely. It hasn't been lost on Whiting that both incidents involved teams - Haas and Ferrari - using the same rear wheel components....
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