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Mercedes Team Orders Explained, Fantasy Football's Hidden Superpower & Week 0 Picks

Friday night edition. Bella unpacks the Mercedes "drama" from the Dutch Grand Prix that wasn't actually drama at all — why Toto Wolff told George Russell to let Kimi Antonelli through with 16 laps to go, why Russell pushed back on the radio, and why it was a defensive call rather than favoritism, with both Ferraris lurking on fresher tires. She contrasts it with Ferrari's failure to make the same call, leaving Lewis Hamilton stuck behind Charles Leclerc and costing the team a third straight race without a podium — plus the 2002 team-orders scandal that got the practice banned, the code words…

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