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Emilia Romagna Grand Prix

Russell investigation, Emilia Romagna GP 2021no further action for incident with Bottas

OutcomeNo Further Action - collision

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Decision · Published

Driver
Russell
What happened
Russell and Bottas collided at Turn 2.
Stewards' reasoning
The Stewards heard from the driver of Russell (George Russell), the driver of Bottas (Valtteri Bottas) and the team representatives and reviewed multiple angles of video evidence and telemetry. Russell approached Bottas to pass after the front straight a few laps after the restart when DRS had recently been enabled. Bottas maintained his line throughout the incident along the right hand side of… full reasoning ↗
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