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Sochi Stewards retract penalty points handed to Hamilton

Two penalties during the 2020 Russian Grand Prix, amounting to ten seconds, cost Lewis Hamilton what might have been his record-equalling  91st Formula 1 victory and for a while added ten penalty points to his license. But hours after the race, FIA Race Stewards reviewed the evidence presented by Mercedes which proves Hamilton was wrongly instructed by his pit-wall regarding where he could do his practice starts ahead of the race in Sochi. As a result, the stewards confirmed in a statement that they had retracted the penalty points given to the World Champion: “The Stewards received information from the team that the driver of car 44 had received a team instruction to perform the...
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