For the first time this year, Crash.net brings you its daily round-up of all the news, updates and added tidbits of information from the paddock after Thursday’s media briefings ahead of the Australian Grand Prix. – A pall hung over the paddock on Thursday when the news broke that race director Charlie Whiting had died suddenly earlier in the morning of a pulmonary embolism. – FIA president Jean Todt led the tributes, calling Whiting “a central and inimitable figure” and “a faithful friend and charismatic ambassador”, while F1 motorsport director Ross Brawn said, “it is a great loss not only for me personally but also the entire Formula 1 family, the FIA and motorsport as a...
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