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‘Freak one-off': Investigation launched after troubling incident at Australian GP

Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) CEO Andrew Westacott has confirmed that an incident which occurred towards the end of the race is going to be reviewed, after a fan was hit by a piece of debris. Spectator Will Sweet was hit by a piece of debris from Kevin Magnussen's Haas, after the Danish driver crashed on the exit of Turn Two on Lap 53/58. Sweet was hit on the arm by a magnesium wheel rim, drawing blood, before fellow fans rushed to Sweet to take the rim off him. “I don’t really know [what happened],” Sweet told Melbourne’s 3AW radio station of the incident. READ: George Russell defends Mercedes handing Lewis Hamilton huge advantage “I was just sort of standing in the...
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