But there seems to be a huge difference in the way both teams interpret team orders and to what lengths they go to use them.
What you mean the
coded messages telling their cars to hold station, crippling car strategy to guarantee qualifying positions between their drivers, swapping positions on the first race of the season, swapping car positions at the same part of the track that Ferrari did only a couple of years later. Yup
that's a huge difference alright.
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Today was a great example with Massa getting in front of Alonso because of a mistake by Alonso. Immediately Massa had to yield.
Are you sure that's actually a
"great example" of team orders and not
actually the effectiveness of DRS?
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At least the McLaren drivers were allowed to take each other on throughout the length of the race and let the best man win.
But it's not always like like is it? You know the fabled
we need you to save fuel message.
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In this instance, they didn't have the choice but to let them race, both had trouble keeping it on the track when it got slippy and Vettel was immediately behind them.
Being the number two driver at Ferrari is akin to being a Personal Assistant.
You should hear what D.C. had to say about being the number two driver at McLaren for 9 years.
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I much prefer McLaren's approach over that.
Oh yes, because it's really all that different isn't it.
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Anyway, interesting race
cringe worthy post-race comments about Hamilton. Have they not been paying attention to the number of mistakes he's made this season? The reality is, without the f***ups he'd be much closer to Vettel in the Championship, just when it seems that he's now got the fastest
race car on the grid.
