By: Charles Bradley, Global Editor in Chief Motorsport.com
It’s always fun to revisit an intra-teammate F1 war with the benefit of hindsight, so Toto Wolff’s comments on the Lewis Hamilton/Nico Roberg bust-up is fascinating to hear.
One thing that sticks in my mind is the team orders episode in the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix (that became totally drowned-out by Multi-21 that day) where Ross Brawn had to get involved. Then there was that post-race ‘play fight’ in parc ferme after the wild finish to the Bahrain Grand Prix in 2014, plus the Monaco qualifying debacle and Hungarian GP spat. All of this before they’d touched on track once (which came at Spa)!
Those were the warning signs, and one wonders if they’d been jumped on earlier – like Brawn did in Malaysia – then they’d never have escalated. But when it was such a two-horse race, with world titles on the line, was it any wonder if played out with such animosity? |
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