RUSSELL DEFENDS COLAPINTO AGAINST RACE BAN TALK

Original: Race ban talk "too harsh" on Franco Colapinto, George Russell and Max Verstappen say

George Russell and Max Verstappen believe a race ban would have been disproportionately harsh punishment for Franco Colapinto's incident at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Mercedes driver George Russell feels a Formula 1 race ban would have been "too harsh" on Franco Colapinto after the Argentinian took out Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly and McLaren's Lando Norris in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. On a lap 36 restart, Colapinto made an error on the dusty inside approach to