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FIA ‘threw Mercedes under a bus’ – Whiting

Toto Wolff has accused the FIA's Charlie Whiting of throwing Mercedes 'under a bus'. Doubts about the legality of Ferrari's 2018 car have subsided after comprehensive checks in Barcelona and Monaco. But in clarifying that Ferrari has the green light, FIA race director Whiting revealed that it was James Allison and Lorenzo Sassi – both former Ferrari officials who are now at Mercedes – who blew the whistle. 'He (Allison) came to us and said ‘This guy (Sassi) started working for us and told us that Ferrari might try to be doing this',' Whiting is quoted as saying by Iltalehti newspaper. The fact that the FIA named Mercedes' whistle-blowers enraged Mercedes team boss Wolff....
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