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Alfa Romeo: Giovinazzi ignoring team order 'not ideal'

Article To news overview © Alfa Romeo Racing Alfa Romeo admit it was "not ideal" that Antonio Giovinazzi ignored an order from the team to allow Kimi Raikkonen to pass him during the Turkish Grand Prix. In the latter stages of the race, Raikkonen was running quicker than his teammate, prompting two requests for Giovinazzi to let him through. However, the Italian did not comply and Xevi Pujolar, Alfa Romeo's Head of Trackside Engineering, feels that this impacted the team's end result. "We asked to swap positions but then at this point also Antonio was starting to pick up the pace and he himself decided that he wanted to stay ahead," Pujolar told select media, including...
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