The Mercedes Racing Team's Response to Team Orders From the Garage

The safety car and the Jedda Corniche circuit almost go hand in hand. They clearly have a very good downforce to drag ratio, which is helping them run high downforce but with high top speed. I think if they were to give him team orders to move aside, it definitely would have been the wrong thing to do. Lewis's tires were screaming by 10 laps after the safety car. And then all of that confusion that happened at post race as well. Talk about miscommunication. Alonso had a five second penalty for not being in the correct position at the start of the race. But when he served that, the Jack was touching his car. He finished six seconds ahead of