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Former F1 drivers say Massa wrong to ignore team orders

Former F1 drivers say Massa wrong to ignore team orders 1 April, 2014 Two former Formula 1 drivers said they thought Felipe Massa was in the wrong to have ignored Williams' team orders in during the Malaysian Grand Prix. Although Brazilian Massa has only just left Ferrari, where in 2010 he was ordered to give up a win to Fernando Alonso, Karl Wendlinger said he should have let Valtteri Bottas past at Sepang. 'As a team boss I would not be pleased with him,' former Sauber driver Wendlinger told Austrian television Servus TV. 'The reason was not just that they wanted Bottas ahead of Massa,' he added, explaining that Williams simply thought Bottas' fresher tyres gave him a better chance of...
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