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“We’ve seen it [in qualifying] with George, and that was maybe over pushing it, but still abrupt[ly] losing it, putting it in the wall. Today, such a situation, there was wind and there was a little bit of dirty air…
“We have definitely [got] an issue. I don’t know whether it was yesterday the same as today. Definitely Lewis Hamilton doesn’t lose the car like this.”
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Wolff also offered his thoughts on the five-second time penalty handed out to Russell for an incident with Kick Sauber rival Valtteri Bottas, having initially made a rare appearance on the radio to describe it as a “total joke”.
Recovering from a pit lane start following his qualifying crash, Russell muscled his way past Bottas under braking for Turn 12 but was deemed by the stewards to have forced the Finn off the track in the process.
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