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Wolff: "The most painful day in my years at Mercedes"

Toto Wolff says that the double retirement for Mercedes at the Austrian Grand Prix serves as a huge wake-up call to the team in their championship battle with Ferrari. Both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas suffered reliability issues forcing them both to retire. Having been comfortably the fastest in qualifying, Mercedes were expected to make a comfortable getaway and race between each other for the race victory, however as fate would have it, they would be packing up early rather than spraying champagne. "I guess that was a major wake-up call," said Wolff. "For me, the most painful day in my years at Mercedes, worse than Barcelona. "I had plenty of people coming...
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