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Lauda, Fittipaldi defend Verstappen driving
Lauda, Fittipaldi defend Verstappen driving Niki Lauda has backed Max Verstappen's driving during the recent Japanese grand prix. Initially, Mercedes lodged a protest against the Dutchman's defensive move in his duel with Lewis Hamilton, in which Verstappen changed direction under braking. The team referred to a generic rule forbidding dangerous driving, but Mercedes ultimately dropped the protest. 'This paragraph (rule) could be interpreted in all sorts of ways so it's worthless,' Mercedes team chairman Niki Lauda told Auto Motor und Sport. 'The two of them didn't even touch, so nothing happened. The protest would have been lost before it even began.' Lauda said he would even have driven...
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