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Masi explains reason for 'delay' in stewards decision

With Max Verstappen's win hanging in the balance, the sport was left on tenterhooks for over three hours as the Spielberg stewards deliberated over the controversial incident on lap 69 which saw the Dutchman pass Charles Leclerc to take victory in the Austrian GP. In that time, the FIA website crashed under the pressure, and a fake document was doing the rounds on social media claiming that Verstappen had been handed a time penalty and that therefore Leclerc was the winner. At around 19:50 (local time), the decision finally came, it was a 'racing incident' and the result stood. Coming in the wake of controversial decisions which impacted both the Canadian and French races, Race director,...
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