Mercedes’ title-warring drivers have been told they must follow team orders over the remaining eight races of 2014. The Brackley based team moved to play down Lewis Hamilton’s defiance in ...
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Ecclestone says F1 to scrap 2015 grid restarts
Bernie Ecclestone says F1 will abandon its highly controversial plan for standing re-starts after safety car periods from 2015. In Hungary, reportedly alarmed with the sport’s dwindling spectator and television ...
Read More »Wolff denies Mercedes will punish Hamilton
Toto Wolff has dismissed suggestions Mercedes will sanction Lewis Hamilton for ignoring team orders in Hungary. Although it was potentially explosive, the German team closed ranks after the incident but ...
Read More »‘Hired to race’ not obey team orders – Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton has hit back at suggestions he was wrong to ignore team orders during Sunday’s Hungarian grand prix. Niki Lauda, who after Hamilton’s qualifying fire had cheered the Briton ...
Read More »Cool Rosberg admits Hamilton cost him Hungary win
Mercedes chiefs are heading into the month-long summer break scratching their heads at how to deal with an escalating driver battle. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo may have won in Hungary, ...
Read More »Mercedes to rethink team orders after Hamilton defiance
Mercedes has moved to put the intensifying battle between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg behind closed doors. “Corporate answer,” boss Toto Wolff smiled late on Sunday, when the extent of ...
Read More »Briatore to inject more ‘show’ into F1 – reports
Bernie Ecclestone sees friend Flavio Briatore as the key to rescuing formula one’s flagging ‘show’. That is the claim of publications including the Spanish sports daily AS, in the wake ...
Read More »Vettel refuses to stamp out Mercedes rumours
The big paddock rumour in Hungary is that Mercedes has made a move to sign Sebastian Vettel. The speculation was even pushed along by Red Bull’s Dr Helmut Marko, who ...
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