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INSANE: F1 clears up ferrari s joke team orders saga - The Real Truth

Ferrari had a day to forget at Formula 1's Chinese Grand Prix with a double disqualification for Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, but fake team order drama further added to team boss Fred Vasseur's misery.

Hamilton and Leclerc were running fourth and fifth respectively after their first pitstop around lap 20 when the tifosi were first alerted to team orders being in play, and Hamilton appearing not best pleased by them. "We are swapping cars in Turn 14," Hamilton's race engineer Riccardo Adami instructed him, with the seven-time world champion's reply: "When he's closer, yeah."

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