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Toto Wolff says Mercedes wants “a car that wins races and championships and who doesn’t get that should be watching another sport”.
After the Spanish Grand Prix, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff once again addressed fans who believe Mercedes is intentionally sabotaging Lewis Hamilton.
“These conspiracy theorists, I have zero respect for, because they have no brain,” the Austrian said.
“We want a car that wins races and championships and who doesn’t get that should be watching another sport.
“It’s good to see that he has had a great weekend, because it has been a while that he has been on the receiving end and strategy has worked against.
“But today that went in his favour and so I am happy we have that podium for him because it has been a while.”
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As for Mercedes’ P3 and P4 at the Spanish GP, Toto said the team is “carefully optimistic”.
“When you look where we ended up, obviously George on the hard tyre was the wrong strategy, clearly that goes on the team.
“And we had a slow stop that was three seconds. If you look at where Lewis was, 15 seconds behind the leaders, while taking the pace out at the end, so maybe call it 10 seconds.
“So that’s much closer, they weren’t holding back, Max [Verstappen] and [Lando] Norris.
“So there’s a reason to be carefully optimistic that we are much closer and will be able to fight,” Wolff concluded.
