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Vettel and Schumacher: Team Order scandal hurt F1

Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher have called the team orders at Ferrari scandal as a great loss to F1. “What happened at Hockenheim does not look good for us all and for the whole sport,” said runner-up Vettel on Thursday in Budapest. “That’s something, is not a surprise, because it has given in recent years, again and again. But the way it happened was unusual.”

Record champion Michael Schumacher agreed with him. “I have to give Sebastian law,” said the seven-time world champion, but did not give his former team Ferrari, but the ban on team orders to blame. “The way how things are implemented because of the rule harms us all.”
Therefore, Schumacher, whose racing team from Induced overtook Rubens Barrichello in 2002 was the introduction of the ban lead to calls for its abolition. “At the end of the day you need to find a way to allow the team orders, because you can stop it anyway not”, said the Mercedes driver. “You have to find a solution that will satisfy all sides.”

Schumacher even had concrete plans of how to implement it wanted, but this does not explain in more detail. “I have an idea, and I will also discuss with certain people,” he said. “But there’s no point now where ideas are trumpeted in 1000 the public.”

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