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Ferrari won't punish Massa for ignoring orders

Felipe Massa won't face any punishment from Ferrari after he chose to ignore a team order to allow team-mate Fernando Alonso to pass early on in the Japanese Grand Prix. The Brazilian has qualified ahead of Massa and got a good start to stay there, but after just a few laps, his race engineer Rob Smedley radioed the following: "Multifunction strategy A. Multifunction strategy A. Now please". Massa admitted after the race that it was in fact a team order to allow Alonso past, but he chose to ignore it. "I am never happy with an instruction," he said. "It was not an instruction when he overtook me on the track. The instruction came much earlier." Team principal...
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