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Rosberg tyre call “unfortunate” admits Wolff on “crappy day”

Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff described the Hungarian Grand Prix as a “crappy day at the office” as his cars failed to make the podium for the first time since the Indian Grand Prix in 2013. Lewis Hamilton finished sixth and Nico Rosberg in eighth after both were involved in collisions with Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo that led to extra pitstops and, in Hamilton's case, a penalty. But Rosberg’s contact was a consequence of him taking the slower medium-compound tyre at his second stop – a decision Red Bull’s Christian Horner labeled at the time as “conservative” – whereas Ricciardo opted for the soft, and was much faster as a consequence. But Wolff argued that it was the...
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