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Mercedes still reluctant to impose team orders

Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton on the podium at Monza Mercedes remains reluctant to issue team orders despite the current Formula 1 season moving towards its business end. Lewis Hamilton stretched his drivers’ championship lead to 30 points over Sebastian Vettel, the equivalent of 1.2 race wins, with victory last time out at Monza. Team boss Toto Wolff had said in the build-up to the Italian Grand Prix that Mercedes would reassess Valtteri Bottas’ role in Hamilton’s campaign after the weekend. While Bottas helped Hamilton pull off what had seemed an unlikely win after the Ferraris locked out the front row of the starting grid, Wolff maintains that he does not want to resort to...
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