The Briton REFUSED to drive faster at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, much to the anger of the Mercedes team.
Hamilton won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, his 10th win of the season against Rosberg’s nine and his fourth successive victory. But it was not enough to prevent the second-placed Rosberg from winning the title by five points.
MERCEDES WERE ANGERED by Hamilton’s refusal to respond to team orders to drive faster as he backed Rosberg into the drivers behind him, Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen; fourth place for Rosberg would have made Hamilton champion for the third year-in-a-row.
Toto Wolff, the Mercedes head of motorsport, said: “Undermining a structure in public means you are putting yourself before the team. It is very simple. Anarchy does not work in any team and in any company.”
WOLFF SAID HE HAD NOT yet decided whether to crack down on a driver who has had 32 of his 53 race wins with the Silver Arrows since joining from McLaren in 2013. “The other half of me says it was Lewis’s only chance of winning the Championship at the stage and maybe you cannot demand a racing driver that is one of the best, if not the best out there, to comply in a situation where his instincts cannot make him comply.
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