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Ferrari will let Massa's team-order snub slide
Getty Images Enlarge Ferrari says Felipe Massa will not be punished despite ignoring a team order to let Fernando Alonso pass early in the race. On lap eight Alonso was on Massa's tail and race engineer Rob Smedley came on the pit-to-car radio to tell his driver: "Multifunction strategy A. Multifunction strategy A. Now please". After the race Massa admitted it was a team order, but said he was not willing to sacrifice the place, even though both drivers later lost a position to Nico Hulkenberg at the first pit stops. "It was an instruction," he said. "I am never happy with an instruction." Massa said he had talked to his team about it after the race and that...
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