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Brawn says team orders went against his nature
Lewis Hamilton has never asked for favoured treatment at Mercedes and the team orders that helped him to third place at the Malaysian Grand Prix were made only out of necessity, according to principal Ross Brawn. Brawn told Sky Sports F1 in an interview that both Hamilton, the 2008 Formula One world champion, and German teammate Nico Rosberg were told to hold position purely because of a fuel issue. Rosberg, who finished fourth, had repeatedly asked for Hamilton to be told to let him through because the German felt he was faster. "I didn't like having to give the orders I gave in Malaysia, it's not in my sporting nature and I think the team have demonstrated many times in the past...
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