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Mercedes: 'That was really painful for us'

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff knows the Austrian Grand Prix was a tough one for his team, with Valtteri Bottas finishing in third but Lewis Hamilton dropping down to fifth as the cars had cooling issues. The two Silver Arrows manned the second starting row of the grid and both moved up a place with Max Verstappen's poor start, but they couldn't keep the pace up. Charles Leclerc in first place was driving away, while Sebastian Vettel was charging from behind. Hamilton even had to swap front wings, with the Brit damaging his nose on the hard kerbstones of the Red Bull Ring, costing him extra time. He eventually got overtaken by Vettel in the final laps, as the German picked the reigning...
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