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Wolff: I was paranoid all season
It may be hard to believe, but Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff says he never truly felt fully confident during their dominant 2014 season.
Despite both Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg enjoying wildly successful campaigns, winning 16 out of 19 grands prix between them, Wolff said it was only at the very end of the season that the paranoia that their rivals would catch up to them subsided.
"I am such a pessimistic person by nature," Wolff told Autosport. "It was not until the flight back from Suzuka to Europe, obviously with the black cloud of Jules's [Bianchi] accident there, that I realised for the first time we have a dominant package - and we might be able to...
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