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Wolff: Ferrari team orders opened up 'a can of worms'

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff believes Ferrari's decision in China to swap the running order of its drivers early in the race may have set a risky precedent. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc overtook team mate Sebastian Vettel at the start of the race in Shanghai but was ordered to yield to the faster German after ten laps, to give Vettel an opportunity to bridge the gap with the front-running Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. Vettel failed to catch up with the Silver Arrows cars while Leclerc, as a result of letting his team mate through, eventually fell into the clutches of Red Bull's Max Verstappen and lost a position to the Dutchman during the race's first pit stop...
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