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Whiting Feels Bottas Puncture Debris came from Magnussen/Gasly Clash

FIA race director Charlie Whiting believes the debris that caused Valtteri Bottas’ late race puncture could have been caused by the collision between Kevin Magnussen and Pierre Gasly and was unlikely to have been left on track during the safety car period. Bottas suffered a race-ending puncture whilst leading the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday having run across a large piece of debris that was on the circuit approaching the pit lane, gifting the lead to Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Whiting says there was no reports of debris at that point of the circuit when the order was given to bring the safety car back into the pit lane, and he feels the clash on the...
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