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Russell handed a three-place grid penalty

Williams driver George Russel has been hit with a three-place penalty for tomorrow's British Grand Prix after the FIA stewards found that he was to blame for the get-together with Ferrari racer Carlos Sainz in the sprint qualifying. The 23-year-old driver was one of the stars in yesterday's qualifying session after securing P8 for today's sprint qualifying with which Russell repeated what he achieved at the Austrian Grand Prix two weeks ago by qualifying in the top ten with Williams. The sport's inaugural spring format, however, started in a rather bad manner for Russell after he tagged the back end of Sainz's Ferrari SF21 at Brooklands, forcing the Spaniard off the track. While Russell...
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