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Mercedes is open to team orders now – but it’s not what you think

Motorsport.comJuly 21, 2026

Curated for Torqlytics readers — aggregated from trusted F1 publishers, not original reporting.


Mercedes might enforce team orders if Kimi Antonelli and George Russell risk losing victory due to their wheel-to-wheel action, its Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff stated.The Silver Arrows took their eighth victory of 2026 when Antonelli won Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix, but Wolff has previously made it clear that he was displeased by the team losing out to Ferrari on two ...