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Whiting: Verstappen penalty justified

While Max Verstappen - not for the first time - believes the stewards got it wrong, and that the time penalty meted out to him for the first lap incident with Kimi Raikkonen was not justified - the Red Bull driver suggesting the Finn was responsible - the FIA's race director, Charlie Whiting disagrees. 'It was quite clearly a penalty because Max went off the track and rejoined the track unsafely,' said Whiting in a post-race media debrief. 'You are required to rejoin safely,' he continued, 'and Kimi was there and he pushed him off the track. So I think that was a fairly straightforward one for the stewards.' Asked about the subsequent clash with Sebastian Vettel, the Briton agreed that it...
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