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Vettel snaps back at Hamilton over Baku criticism

Sebastian Vettel has defended his actions behind the safety car at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after Lewis Hamilton accused him of breaking the rules. Hamilton was angry that Vettel weaved across the track slowly before bursting away to maintain the lead. After the first-lap chaos brought the safety car to the track, Vettel backed the field up significantly before catching them cold to negate the fight into turn one. Hamilton said after the race: "You are not allowed to start and stop, start and stop. You're not allowed to fake the guy behind. If there was not that rule, that's what you'd do because eventually you'd catch them sleeping. "In Australia he accelerated and braked and I...
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