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“When overtaking [Oscar] Piastri after coming out of the pits, he hit the bump and came very close and the amount of turbulence might have played a role, and one of the main front flaps collapsed, so it was a tremendous loss of downforce,” Wolff explained about Russell’s front wing damage.
“George drove very well all weekend. And on the other side, maybe there is something in the aero update package that… causes something that we don’t understand. Because we had two massive crashes in the same corner in Austin, and we had a crash on the old car too, so this car is so on a knife’s edge.”
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Wolff was clear that his drivers are allowed to race each other – and they did so, Hamilton getting Russell off the line, before Russell moved ahead in the opening stint, and then Hamilton returned the favour late on.
“They are so good and so experienced that we allow the racing. At the beginning I had no doubt, there was never a feeling that ‘ah this is getting a bit hairy.’ We made the call to George at the end that Lewis had the fastest car, that maybe that one defence on the straight was a bit of a late move but I don’t have any doubts about the two.”
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