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Hamilton, Max share concerns over Austrian GP flares

As fans lit flares during the formation lap for the Austrian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton has revealed the drivers 'couldn’t see anything' through Turn 6. Max Verstappen's orange army has become synonymous with orange flares, spectators in the grandstands at Turn 7 and 8, and elsewhere too, lighting flares on Sunday. Video footage posted on social media shows fans unable to see a single moment of the action at the race got underway, while more flares near the end also meant they struggled to see the race winner. That was Charles Leclerc, the Ferrari driver saying while the flares weren't 'too bad' for the his visibility, there was 'a lot' of smoke. “The formation lap [the smoke] was...
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