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F1: Ferrari Staying Focused As Controversy Still Rages
Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa are looking ahead to Hungary...
SPEED Staff / GMM  |  Posted July 28, 2010   GMM Newswire
Fernando Alonso celebrates his win in Germany last weekend. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
In their blogs on the official Ferrari website, Felipe Massa said Hockenheim had been a "great team result," while Fernando Alonso said victory was a "great feeling."

They did not even mention the team orders scandal.

Team boss Stefano Domenicali summed up the internal mood - while the Formula One world is alight with controversy - by saying he wants Ferrari to "remain focused on our own work, starting in Budapest" this weekend.

But the headline in Brazil's Globo summed up the attitude as "no remorse," while the Jornal do Brasil published a cartoon of Paulista Massa as a puppet.

In Italy, however, Tuttosport backed Luca di Montezemolo's claim about team order "hypocrisy," accusing Martin Whitmarsh of having "amnesia" when he suggested there are no team orders at McLaren.

The article referred to Hockenheim 2008, when Heikki Kovalainen gave way to Lewis Hamilton.
Felipe Massa (Left) and Fernando Alonso (Right) could still lose points for their role in the team orders affair. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

Other reports have referred to the arguable "low fuel" messages for Jenson Button and Hamilton recently, with Germany's Auto Motor und Sport claiming the pair received a similar order last Sunday.

Indeed, in La Gazzetta dello Sport, writer Umberto Zapelloni appeared to praise Ferrari for applying its team orders "without subterfuge.

"Massa was not told he was consuming too much fuel or his tires were in crisis, but others have been (told those things) this season," he wrote.

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