Of course, in a race characterised by failures and incidents, the safety car cannot be missing. FIA race director Michael Masi had his hands full with the season opener of Formula 1 at Spielberg. Masi does however indicate that the safety car was used longer than necessary by the race management. Central in that debate: Alexander Albon and Sergio Perez. Just in the seconds between the end of the second and the beginning of the third safety car phase, Albon and Perez fought a duel for third place. The Red Bull driver in turn tried to overtake Racing Point , just at that moment the safety car symbol was shown again. Lots of discussion about the right order "We had to look at the...
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