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Horner: Team orders would have been wrong

Red Bull boss Christian Horner thinks it would have been unfair to both his drivers to have imposed team orders at the Malaysian Grand Prix, as they battled it out for position. Horner faced some anxious moments on the pitwall as the differing race strategies that Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo were on meant they would be fighting each other for track position. But on the two occasions when Horner could have been tempted to impose orders, he said priority was to keep it fair for both drivers. The first time was when Verstappen was closing up on Ricciardo and still within then race leader Lewis Hamilton's pit window, so it would have been justified for Red Bull to ask the Dutchman to be...
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