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FIA to negotiate with Red Bull: 'Wouldn't call it a deal'

Michael Masi has explained the negotiations with Red Bull Racing about the starting position of Max Verstappen after the first restart. The Red Bull driver made a mistake and took the lead in an illegal way. Verstappen would eventually start from P3, but Masi does not want to call it a deal from the FIA for the Austrian racing team. Masi on Red Bull offer "I wouldn’t call it a deal as from a race director’s perspective I had no authority to actually instruct the teams to do anything in that situation," Masi said in a conversation with The Race and others. So how does the FIA chief look back at the situation? "I can give them an offer and the ability to do that but the...
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