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Gasly also to blame for recovery vehicle saga

Oct.13 Pierre Gasly has some of the blame for a highly dangerous situation that occurred during the Japanese GP. The Frenchman, and many of his fellow Formula 1 drivers, was livid with the FIA after a heavy vehicle entered the Suzuka circuit to recover Carlos Sainz's crashed Ferrari even though cars were still circulating at speed. 'If I was two meters to the left, I would have been dead,' Gasly said. However, some immediately pointed the finger at the Alpha Tauri driver himself. 'What's Gasly doing?' veteran Blick correspondent Roger Benoit said. 'Driving at 250kph in a red flag.' Indeed, even F1's governing body penalised Gasly, who the Suzuka stewards said 'admitted he was too fast'....
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