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Villeneuve: Team orders are fine but this is too much

One way of looking at Mercedes engineering Lewis Hamilton's victory at the Italian Grand Prix by using Valtteri Bottas to help his teammate in the race winning strategy as a superb example of teamwork, while others will see it as team orders out of control. In the wake of a riveting Sunday afternoon at Monza, 1997 Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, a pundit for Sky Italia, was not impressed with the manner in which Mercedes achieved victory on the home soil of arch-rivals and pre-race favourites Ferrari. During a crucial spell in the race, race leader Kimi Raikkonen led, increasing the gap on chasing Hamilton after the pitstops but several laps later with the Mercedes on much...
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