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Charlie Whiting rejects safety car controversy

Charlie Whiting has denied the FIA has time to consider whether safety car deployments favour certain competitors over others. Comments made after China, in particular by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, cast doubt on the decision to deploy the safety car, which because of the timing favoured Red Bull. Vettel said race control should have timed its deployment in a way which did not put them at a disadvantage and should have used the Virtual Safety Car firstly to ‘freeze’ the race. F1 race director Whiting is quoted by Italy's Autosprint: 'If we decide to use the safety car, it's for safety reasons. 'So at that moment I'm not looking to see who's going to be advantaged and who's not. 'All we...
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