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Team orders may have cost Williams victory at home

After launching off past the Silver Arrows off the grid, Williams team were left to rue an opportunity lost in the British Grand Prix, in which they led for a substantial chunk of time. Part of the reason the Silverstone race was so exciting was because Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas got a surprise jump on the two Mercedes at the start. But then came the ‘team orders'. Williams told the charging Bottas to hold station rather than attack Massa's leading car, even though some believe the Finn would have raced into the distance had he been free to do so. 'At the beginning I had good pace,' Bottas told the Finnish broadcaster MTV3, 'and at one point I would have been able to get...
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