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Toto Wolff says Lewis Hamilton is “a fantastic racer, and when he has a sniff of being able to win a grand prix, that’s when he is so strong”.
After Lewis Hamilton’s fantastic British Grand Prix win, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff was ecstatic over how their last race together at Silverstone concluded.
“You couldn’t have written a better farewell British Grand Prix after 12 years, it was great,” the Austrian told Sky Sports F1.
“It is the last British Grand Prix together, and the sign-off is like a fairytale. We leave the British crowds with the most iconic and most successful British driver.
“He’s a fantastic racer, and when he has a sniff of being able to win a grand prix, that’s when he is so strong.”
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Unfortunately, not everything went great for Mercedes, as George Russell’s race was cut short due to a water pressure issue.
“We’ve had some difficult times recently and I really enjoy us bouncing back. We were running one and two for a long time in the dry, so performance-wise, it looks like we’re coming back.
“George has been coming up so strong. It’s a shame that we had a DNF, because we could have had a second car [on the podium].
“So that’s maybe the only thing that we let him down on,” Wolff concluded.