F1 team Mercedes "will rethink" its approach to races "after a controversy over team orders at the Hungarian Grand Prix," according to Andrew Benson of the BBC.
Lewis Hamilton "refused a demand to move over for team-mate Nico Rosberg because he felt it would mean the German would end up beating him in the race." Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said, "We will not have that situation again because we will try to learn. We cannot expect the drivers in the second half of the season to move over for their main competitor." Before the season, Mercedes team bosses Wolff and Paddy Lowe "mapped out with their drivers a plan for how they would approach races."
They made it clear they "wanted them to race freely, but that the team's priorities came first."
Details of the agreement "were never revealed, but it seems part of it was that one driver would allow the other to pass if they were on divergent strategies to allow each to maximise their own chances." Hamilton said, "Whatever the rule was didn't apply today, I don't think" (BBC, 7/28).