Mercedes meeting of minds fails amid latest Hamilton-Rosberg row | Giles Richards
The accusations flew after the coming together at Spa but the F1 teams handling of their drivers is being called into question
Mercedes are a team in the business of going racing and mightily successful they have been this season but, of late, it seems simply the business of holding meetings has increasingly distracted their attention and it has not been to their benefit.
Daniel Ricciardo won the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday with a consummate display of overtaking, pace and car management. As always, he enjoyed himself but, sadly for him, everyone else was looking the other way. Everyone else was looking at Mercedes and Mercedes were in a meeting. Ricciardo took the win admittedly with great skill, but only after Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg had come together on the second lap and, as a consequence, ratcheted up their increasingly fractious relationship.
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