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F1 steward Salo says Bottas 'did nothing wrong'

Sep.15 Mugello steward Mika Salo insists that Valtteri Bottas "did nothing wrong" before the midfield race re-start pileup last Sunday. Some of the drivers caught up in the scary incident pointed the finger at the very front of the field, where a weaving leader Bottas left his charge notably late after the safety car went into the pits. Ultimately, the FIA officials reprimanded no few than 12 drivers - but not Bottas. "It took a long time," Salo said of the stewards' investigation. "We had to go through the data of everyone in the crash, to see who got on the gas and who didn't," the former F1 driver told Ilta Sanomat newspaper. "When we looked at the...
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