Toto Wolff has picked out who he believes to be Mercedes’ “strongest weapon” – none other than “Mr Grumpy” himself, Helmut Marko. Marko is, of course, the head of Red Bull’s driver development programme and a senior advisor to the team with which Mercedes are competing in a fierce tussle for both of this year’s World Championship titles. The two Austrians are anything but best friends, with the less diplomatic Marko – 29 years Wolff’s senior – never shy of expressing his real feelings about the arch-rivals. But Wolff, rather than being riled, prefers to use his compatriot’s barbs as fuel in the quest to make it a straight eight of both Drivers’ and Constructors’...
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