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Verstappen penalty would be ‘stealing'

Red Bull principal Christian Horner claims that the stewards would be 'stealing from Formula 1' if they stripped Max Verstappen of the Austrian GP win. The Dutchman dropped from P2 at the start down to P8 after the anti-stall kicked in on his RB15, but he recovered in style by overtaking Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas and Charles Leclerc to claim the win. However, the stewards are investigating Verstappen's race-winning move on Leclerc after he left the Ferrari driver very little room as he went up the inside at Turn 3. Horner believes that Verstappen did nothing wrong, and that by punishing the good hard racing that the sport has been crying out for, the stewards would be 'stealing...
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