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Toto Wolff wants team radio rethink after Baku struggles

Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff believes the European Grand Prix highlighted a problem with the new team radio clampdown, which limits what can and can't be communicated between the driver and team. At the beginning of the season, the radio rules were tightened up to stop engineers from essentially coaching their drivers, but Wolff believes it may have gone too far following struggles for both Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, both of which pleaded for more information from their team during Sunday's race. Hamilton suffered a drop in power because a switch wasn't set correctly before the race, but his engineer was unable to inform him how to remedy the...
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