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In the interest of fairness and accuracy I want to correct a comment I expressed in last month’s column. This referred to F1 race director Michael Masi having considerable influence on penalty decisions awarded by the race stewards. A chat with my extremely knowledgeable colleague, Dieter Rencken, has assured me that the stewards do operate fully independently. I am grateful that he could assure me of this. My other comments stand, however!

Having watched a couple of entertaining NTT IndyCar Series races recently (12 different race leaders during the Indianapolis Road Course event) I was interested to see how

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