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Räikkönen: No 'stories' behind Vettel tow

imi Räikkönen has made clear that a mistake on his final Q3 run was behind him giving a tow to team-mate Sebastian Vettel, rather than being instructed to do so.Räikkönen went "sideways" at Liege at the end of the pole position shootout and backed off to help Vettel on the long run from Stavelot to the Bus Stop chicane.Vettel thanked Räikkönen after qualifying, stating that the gesture earned him a couple of tenths of a second, as he split Mercedes pair Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.Vettel heads Hamilton by 14 points in the title race, raising suspicions that Räikkönen was asked to play the team game, but the Finn slammed such suggestions, making clear that it was his...
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