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Toto Wolff calls for FIA intervention to end qualifying impeding

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has called for the FIA to talk to the teams and the drivers about how to end impeding once and for all, with it continuing to be a pressing issue in qualifying. Qualifying at last weekend's Mexican Grand Prix was yet another fiasco, as some drivers opted to stop at the end of the pit-lane to create a gap rather than go slowly in the final sector. Completing a very slow out-lap is now effectively impossible due to a maximum lap-time having been imposed by race director Niels Wittich, which has arguably caused the pit-lane drama. Both Max Verstappen and George Russell stopped momentarily in the pit-lane during Q1 last weekend, which caused a traffic jam....
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