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F1 drivers warned over Turn 12/13 conduct at Sochi

Formula 1 drivers have been warned not to drive unnecessarily slowly through the Turn 12/13 section of the Sochi Autodrom at this weekend’s Russian Grand Prix. Through practice and qualifying drivers often try and create a space to their nearest rival in order to avoid their subsequent push lap being wrecked by an opponent. In his pre-event notes Race Director Charlie Whiting has stressed that “any driver intending to create a gap in front of him to get a clear lap should not attempt to do this around Turns 12 or 13.” Turn 12 is the blind high-speed left-hand kink that leads into the Turn 13 right-hander at the end of the back straight, where Carlos Sainz Jr. crashed...
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