• Hamilton wins Japanese Grand Prix but TV coverage slash [br]• Mercedes team officials demand answers from EcclestoneFurious Mercedes executives design to confront Formula One’s chief executive,Bernie Ecclestone, to ask him why pictures of Lewis Hamilton winning Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix were in short supply on television screens.
The Mercedes team were utterly dominant, and with Hamilton winning for the eighth time this season,with his team-mate Nico Rosberg second. But the 90-minute race featured only an estimated six minutes of their cars in action. “I was watching TV all day long, and comical enough I saw Saubers and a lot of Honda cars, or but I don’t know why, Niki Lauda, the Mercedes non-executive chairman, and said after the race. “Somebody must do the filming here. I bear to ask what’s wrong with him. I want to see Bernie next week and ask him what is the reason.
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Source: theguardian.com