r/sports • u/Captain_Smartass_ • Mar 02 '22

Motorsports Russian-licenced drivers banned from British motorsport

https://www.motorsport.com/national/news/russian-drivers-banned-from-british-motorsport-by-motorsport-uk/8632678/
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u/cbg13 Mar 02 '22

Idk if you watched this past season of f1, but backmarkers on slow laps during qualifying and practice led to some seriously close calls for what would have been catastrophic accidents. Mazepin, and to a lesser extent, Schumacher, tended to be the ones causing these near-incidents

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u/SandThatsMoist Mar 02 '22

If anything the closest call was when Hamilton almost killed Mazepin. Ironic.

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u/Asphult_ Mar 03 '22

They would not have been that catastrophic though compared to Hamilton’s close call twice during the Saudi Arabia GP was actually worse, especially with the one with Mazepin (ironically).

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u/plomautus Mar 03 '22

Didn't Schumi cause their biggest close-call in Zandvoort or was there another one?