Lotus apologised on Monday for bad language in a heated exchange with their driver Kimi Raikkonen during Sunday's Indian Formula One Grand Prix. Trackside operations director Alan Permane was heard on the team radio using a profanity to order the Finn, who had worn tyres and overheating brakes, to move over and let teammate Romain Grosjean through for third place. Raikkonen, who famously told his team over the radio last year to leave him alone because he knew what he was doing, replied with some choice words of his own. "Romain was two seconds per lap faster than Kimi at that time, so it was not even a team order," team principal Eric Boullier told the team's website...
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