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Hakkinen: Ferrari must forget team orders - focus on winning
Two-time world champion Mika Hakkinen believes Ferrari should stop "playing games" and focus its attention on winning if it ambitions to beat Mercedes this season. In his regular post-race commentary for Unibet, the former McLaren driver reflected on last weekend's Chinese Grand Prix, and claimed that Ferrari were wrong to resort to team orders in Shanghai. "Charles Leclerc made a better start to the race than Ferrari team mate Sebastian Vettel and should really have been allowed to get on with it and take the fight to Bottas if he could," said Hakkinen. "Instead he was asked to slow down and let Vettel past, which looked like a mistake. Brundle: 'Ferrari mustn't...
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