{"id":13294,"date":"2011-08-01T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13294"},"modified":"2011-08-01T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:05:01","slug":"no-team-orders-as-mclaren-drivers-diced-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-team-orders-as-mclaren-drivers-diced-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"No team orders as McLaren drivers diced in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday in Hungary proved McLaren does not use team orders, according to Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to winning his 200th grand prix, the 31-year-old engaged in a wheel-to-wheel, place-swapping duel with his teammate Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Button said a few days ago that McLaren &#8220;does not have team orders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other teams will use them, but not us,&#8221; he added, apparently referring to Red Bull&#8217;s order that Mark Webber hold position behind Sebastian Vettel at Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p>After Sunday&#8217;s race, Button said it was no surprise the McLaren pitwall kept out of the battle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I wasn&#8217;t surprised they let us fight,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;We wouldn&#8217;t have listened anyway.\u00a0 If they had said &#8216;back off and sit behind your teammate&#8217;, it wouldn&#8217;t have happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s managing director Jonathan Neale confirmed the desire to sometimes protect a good team result.<\/p>\n<p>But he insisted: &#8220;You have to let them go sometimes.\u00a0 We can get it wrong but when you have a race like that, you know you are right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday in Hungary proved McLaren does not use team orders, according to Jenson Button. Prior to winning his 200th grand prix, the 31-year-old engaged in a wheel-to-wheel, place-swapping duel with his teammate Lewis Hamilton. Button said a few days ago that McLaren &#8220;does not have team orders&#8221;. &#8220;Other teams will use them, but not us,&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[3155,5262,5340,153,342,154,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13295,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions\/13295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}