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'Horrible' Red Bull Ring highlights fundamental issue with Mercedes gearbox
As early as the second lap of Sunday's race Valtteri Bottas was being told to look after his car, and as the battle at the front intensified, courtesy of the numerous safety cars, the messages from the pit-wall became more fraught as the engineers feared that running over the unforgiving kerbs at the Red Bull Ring would lead to a double-DNF. Speaking after the race, team boss, Toto Wolff admitted that the team feared what he termed 'instant kill' for both cars. 'The situation was pretty serious, right away from the start,' he told reporters after the race. 'We saw it started with issues on Valtteri's car, but it was something that can be an instant kill. Then it started on Lewis's car. 'We...
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