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Abt suspended by Audi after disqualification

We thought Lando Norris v Simon Pagenaud would be the biggest esports story from lockdown…not any more. With the global health pandemic putting a stop to all real racing over the last few months, the attention has turned to the virtual world with Formula 1 amongst those hosting their own series to provide some form of racing fix. The same goes for Formula E, but it has attracted fresh controversy after Audi driver Daniel Abt got pro gamer Lorenz Hoerzing to race under his name instead at the latest round which took place at the virtual Flughafen Tempelhof circuit in Berlin. Abt, who did apologise for his actions, was disqualified from the race, fined 10,000 Euros and stripped of all...
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