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Esteban Gutierrez was the subject of more blue flag controversy at the German Grand Prix.
At last month's Hungarian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton showed the Mexican a middle finger after he appeared to ignore blue flags. He was later handed a penalty for the incident as Hamilton went on to win the race.
There was a similar incident in the German Grand Prix, this time with Daniel Ricciardo leading the Australian to sarcastically proclaim: "He's one of my favourites, I love this guy", over the radio while trying to lap the Haas driver.
"Off the track, I have no problem at all with Esteban," Ricciardo said. "I think he's actually one of the nicer guys – but just on the track just lately, it's come up the last few races that a few of us haven't been that impressed with the blue flags."
"He knows that a few aren't that impressed with his blue flag handling. I thought by now the message would have gone through but… I lost more time behind him than anyone else."
When told about of Ricciardo's comments, Gutiérrez was surprised with the remarks.
"I'm surprised, because I saw other people in front, obviously I saw he [Ricciardo] was behind of course, but he was pretty far away at that time," Gutiérrez said. "Then at some point I really lifted and lost about two seconds."
"I did my best, it was not my intention to block or anything. If he is not comfortable with it I'm going to speak to him and try and get it better as it's not my intention to do it," he continued. "I was on Super Soft [tyres] at that moment, he was catching me very slowly, and when I saw he was one second behind or something I really backed off and let him by in Turn 2."
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