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Dutch driver thinks grid penalty Verstappen is nonsense: 'It's idiocy'

After Brazil the FIA was not finished with handing out penalties. During the Grand Prix weekend in Qatar Max Verstappen received a grid penalty of five places for ignoring a double yellow in qualifying. Dutch driver Christijan Albers does not agree with the penalties handed out by the FIA. According to him there was no danger. "Sorry, but I think it's all idiocy. What am I supposed to say about it? Someone drives on the straight and then you get to see a yellow flag in a qualifying session", Albers begins in the Formula 1 podcast of The Telegraph. The former driver thinks it is good there are rules, but according to him it gets in the way of the championship. "The problem...
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