Formula 1 world champions Mercedes have indicated they may increasingly have to favour Lewis Hamilton over new team mate Valtteri Bottas to counter the threat posed by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. In practice, that is likely to mean the reluctant imposition of more of the so-called ‘team orders' used in the Bahrain Grand Prix. 'We don't like that at all,' team boss Toto Wolff told reporters after Bottas twice obeyed radio instructions to let the faster Hamilton through to chase eventual winner and championship leader Vettel. 'It's not what we have done in the last couple of years but the situation is different now so it needs a proper analysis of what it means and where we are.'...
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