Max Verstappen escapes penalty, keeps F1 Austrian GP pole after impeding investigation

Max Verstappen has escaped punishment at the F1 Austrian Grand Prix after being cleared for potentially impeding Kevin Magnussen in qualifying. 
Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racd Championship,
Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racd Championship,

Two-time world champion Verstappen was summoned to see the stewards for allegedly "uneccessarily impeding" Magnussen during the first part of Friday qualify🦂ing at the Red Bull Ring.

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The incident occured during Q1 when Magnussen, who was starting a flying lap, came acros💧s a slow-moving Verstappen at the exit of Turn 1. 

Footage showed Magnussen 𓂃having to move across to the right with Verstappe🍷n going slowly on the outside. 

Verstappen queried the incident over team radio, askin🍷g: "He was on a⛄ fast lap?"

Race engineer Gianpiero Lambia♊se replied: "🅺Yep, roger."

Magnussen went on to have his lap deleted 🐻for a track limits violation. 

The Dutchman pipped Ferrari's 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc to the fastest time in qualifying to claim his fourth successꦚive pole this season. 

What did the stewards say?

Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas VF-23. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 10, Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg, Austria, Qualifying
Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas VF-23. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 10, Austrian Grand Prix,…

"The Stewards heard from the driver of Car ​1 (Max Verstappen), the driver of Car ​20 (Kevin Magnussen), team representatives and reviewed positioning/marshꦿalling system ꦜdata, video, timing, telemetry, team radio and in-car video evidence.

"The driver of Car 1 stated that he saw aꦫ car approaching after he crossed the line at the end of his push lap and moved to the left of the track after the exit of Turn 1.

"The driver of Car 20 stated that he had to move to the right to av👍oid Car 1 and hence lost time on his fast lap.

"The Stewards determined from the video (and audio) evidence that Car 20 had clipped the kerb in Turn 1 and that this subsequently caused a slight change in acceleration which in turn resulted in a🍌 slightly slower time on the next mini sectors.

"The Stewards further determꩵined that Car 20 did not have to take significant evasive action.

"We further note that the fact that the 🐠lap time of Car 20 was subsequently deleted (due to exceeding track limits at Turn 10) was irrelevant to this decision. Any in♌cident is always investigated independently of other incidents or penalties."

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