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Ferrari forgot to tell Charles Leclerc about Sebastian Vettel's penalty

Ferrari Team Principal Mattia Binotto says the team forgot to tell Charles Leclerc about Sebastian Vettel’s time penalty, accepting that it was a mistake. Vettel led Lewis Hamilton at Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix but was issued with a five-second time penalty after he was judged to have re-joined unsafely and forced Hamilton to take evasive action after running wide at Turn 4 on lap 48 of 70. Notification of the penalty for Vettel came on lap 57, at which point Leclerc – who stopped later than the leaders – had begun closing in on the duo up front. Once Vettel’s time penalty was added he had just 1.038s on his team-mate, who revealed post-race that he had...
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