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Toto Wolff: Painful for Mercedes to be cruising

Mercedes' Team Principal Toto Wolff described watching his team at the Austrian Grand Prix as “painful” in the wake of its subdued display. Mercedes arrived at the Red Bull Ring chasing a record-equalling 11th straight Formula 1 win but expected high ambient temperatures to prove a challenge. Air temperature reached 35˚c during Sunday’s race and Mercedes was unable to keep up with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. “We knew that it was our Achilles’ heel and we were carrying the problems since the beginning of the season,” said Wolff on cooling. “We tried to work on mitigating the performance loss, but at the...
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