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Perez: Hamilton blue flag penalty ‘very unfair'

Sergio Perez believes his five-second time penalty for ignoring blue flags at the Spanish Grand Prix when Lewis Hamilton approached was 'very unfair'. Hamilton lapped the Racing Point driver down the main straight, a yield which seemed routine enough. But the Stewards decided that Perez had held the race winner up when he caught him at the end of the lap, failing to respond to the blue flags, and so handed Perez the time penalty. Perez would finish the race in P5 with only the top three runners avoiding being lapped, and it's safe to say the Mexican is not in acceptance of his punishment, feeling there was nowhere else he could have moved over so that Hamilton could come through. “I...
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