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Angry Force India to reinforce team orders

Force India team principal Otmar Szafnauer has said team orders are back in effect after Sergio Perez ended Esteban Ocon's race in Singapore. Not for the first time in their two years together at Force India, Perez and Ocon collided which led to the latter, who is set to be without a race seat in 2019, suffering his third first-lap retirement of the 2018 season. Force India introduced team orders after the Belgian Grand Prix in 2017 before relaxing the rules once P4 was sewn up in the Constructors' Championship. The pair have been free to race each other throughout the season, but the first-lap contact in Singapore has left Szafnauer to re-impose team orders from Russia onward. 'It's...
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