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Old 2010-07-26, 08:34 AM   #273
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Ferrari is busted for "team orders". Spoilers below...

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/7/11071.html

While I felt for Massa, I actually think the FIA keeps getting this wrong. Teams are teams and should be allowed to make decisions for the betterment of the team, even at the expense of one of their drivers. I'm a huge Massa fan, and I think he deserved to win that race... but realistically, if he doesn't want Alonso as the preferred driver, he just needs to drive faster and get ahead of him in the championship right from race 1. And that's especially true at Ferrari where the team is always more important than the driver(s). Ferrari either has a publicly stated #1 driver, or they treat whoever is in the championship lead as the #1 driver. They may be ruthless about it, but you can't say they're not consistent or that they play favorites.
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