Niki Lauda believes the Ferrari Formula 1 team should receive a bigger penalty for letting Fernando Alonso win the German Grand Prix. During the Grand Prix at Hockenheim race leader Felipe Massa was told to let team-mate Alonso get passed him so the Spaniard could win the race.
Speaking the current situation in Formula 1 in terms of team orders Niki Lauda told the official F1 site: “You have two models of how to race in Formula One as a team. If you approach it politically then you are in the Ferrari mould. Or you try to give both your drivers equal opportunities and the fans an exciting sport, as Red Bull are doing in letting their drivers compete with each other. That is what makes this sport a crowd puller because they see the best guys in the best cars racing each other with a ‘may the best man win’ philosophy - and not mocking the fans with a collusive result. But I am aware that this is a topic where opinions differ.
“What they did in Hockenheim was against all rules. Either the rules are changed or everybody observes them. What they’ve done is wrong and they got an immediate punishment - and they will get a pasting from the (FIA) World (Motor Sport) Council, that is for sure. And that has nothing to do with Alonso. He’s no Schumacher.”
Fernando Alonso has scored 141 points so far this season and is currently in fifth.
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