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“there was some truth to what Hadjar said”

Laurent Mekies, read out by Scott Mitchell-Malm, at 9:40 of “Why Verstappen and Hadjar are furious with Red Bull” on The Race’s channel.

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1. 9:31 against their own team, and it's quite a striking list of things to have gone through. So how did
2. 9:36 Mekiez plead when you grilled him about all of these this evening? Yeah, I did go to Laurent with quite
3. 9:40 a long list of things to ask him. He said there was some truth to what Hadjar said, those were his exact
4. 9:47 words. On the start thing, obviously, he said what you said in terms of it was really bad at the start,
5. 9:52 so it is better now in terms of that improvement, but it is far more painful now because Red Bull has

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• The Armchair Stewards, week ending 27 October 2026