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Originally Posted by chillibowl
earlier on in the season Toto Wolff was touting this Merc strategy of 'letting our drivers drive' and 'for the good of the sport we owe it to the fans to do this' type stuff.
at the time most of here were saying that while very noble of them there will be fireworks at some point and low and behold we are starting to see the beginnings of that.
is this a case of to many talking heads at Merc? one boss encouraging this behaviour and now another boss saying that the behaviour needs to fixed.
mixed singles imo.
as for brand, World Cup starts in a few weeks and then its pretty much F1 summer break...by then the WCC will be sown up and many casual observers will have tuned out. Merc's dream season is going to go largely ignored by the public unless this driver row moves from palpable tension to outright physical altercation (preferably out of the car but i suspect they both fight like little girls so they will fight on track).
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It would appear that you are right on the money Chilli
http://www.f1reader.com/news/zetsche...mercedes-98840
Zetsche is quite happy with them fighting, I suspect he means clean racing only though!
Talk about mixed messaging!