Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says his team will never consider a 1-2 finish as the norm, insisting the German squad came close to a defeat last weekend in Monaco. Lewis Hamilton delivered to the manufacturer its 93rd Grand Prix win on Sunday, but a pitlane skirmish between Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas deprived Mercedes of a sixth consecutive 1-2 finish. However, Wolff was expecting the team's string of clean sweeps to come to an end sooner rather than later. "I take full responsibility for not [getting] the 1-2," said the Austrian. "I think we need to keep our feet on the ground and we’re laughing about it, but what we can see is that teams stop winning once...
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