Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff insists that Lewis Hamilton's second place in the Austrian Grand Prix was as good as the team expected it to get for the Briton, and played down suggestions that he had been undone by slow pit-stops. Hamilton started only ninth at the Red Bull Ring, having had his first Q3 qualifying time deleted for running wide at turn eight and then spinning at turn two on his final run, but worked his way through the traffic on the opening couple of laps to be running in the lead group for most of the race. The grand prix eventually boiled down to a straight fight between the Briton and Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg but, having emerged behind the German after his...
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