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FIA scraps lap time deletions for Bahrain track limit abuses

FIA race director Michael Masi has agreed to scrap lap time deletions for track limit violations in Bahrain following Friday's drivers' briefing. Ahead of the Bahrain GP weekend, the governing body warned drivers that lap times would be deleted for drivers exceeding track limits at Sakhir's Turn 4, a corner that was not previously subject to any monitoring by the stewards. In Friday's opening day of running, race control deleted 33 lap times, with Lewis Hamilton leading the number of offenses with five transgressions, while Sebastian Vettel and four other drivers saw their lap times canceled on four occasions. In Friday evening's drivers' briefing, Vettel remarked that limits at Turn 4 had...
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