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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sport
Marc Mayo

F1 investigation launched into shocking scenes as Esteban Ocon narrowly avoids hitting photographers in Baku

Formula One bosses were facing big questions on Sunday night after Esteban Ocon was forced into evasive action to avoid running over a troop of media photographers in the pit lane at the end of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

The Alpine driver had waited until the final lap of the race to take his mandatory pit stop, to avoid being disqualified having deployed a strategy that depended on a late safety car or red flag that never came.

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