Motorsport News  |  30th November 2016
ROSBERG'S GREATEST DAY
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff says that Lewis Hamilton undermined the team by ignoring orders to increase his pace in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and has yet to decide if the team will adopt a different approach to letting its drivers race each other next year. The Brit was backing team-mate Nico Rosberg into the rest of the pack in the closing stages of the race in his attempts to claim a fourth title. But with Sebastian Vettel closing fast on newer supersoft tyres, Hamilton was instructed to increase his pace to
ensure Mercedes won the race. He defied the orders, which later came from technical boss Paddy Lowe, saying “let us race”. In the end his plan didn’t work with Rosberg able to stay ahead of Vettel and Max Verstappen with
second enough for the German to clinch his first title.
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Below is a selection of articles in Motorsport News 30th November 2016.