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GPDA Chaiman Wurz says stewards showed consistency with Vettel penalty

Sebastian Vettel's five second penalty for a dangerous re-entry to the track and impeding Lewis Hamilton has split the F1 world, but the Grand Prix Drivers' Association chairman Alex Wurz says that the stewards showed good consisteny, after a similar incident involving Max Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen at last season's Japanese Grand Prix. Verstappen overshot the Casio Triangle chicane, and came back on the track to block Kimi Raikkonen and was given the same penalty as Vettel. Wurz, a former F1 driver himself for Benetton, McLaren and Williams told BBC Sport: "Of course, if you push it to the limit, one driver makes a mistake, if the mistake is in front of you, you have to...
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