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Whiting: Grosjean made Verstappen Qualifying incident worse than it was

FIA race director Charlie Whiting believes that Romain Grosjean overreacted over the qualifying blocking that he accused Max Verstappen of, saying that the Frenchman made it "worse than it was". Verstappen was cleared of any wrongdoing after the Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying session. Speaking to Motorsport-total, Whiting said that the incident was not enough to warrant a penalty of any kind and that the Haas driver made a meal of what was a fairly innocuous incident. "For me, this incident was not the same as that of Vettel in Austria," Whiting said. "There was clearly an inability to do so. The biggest difference with Hungary is the bad weather conditions,...
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