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Wolff: We nearly peed our pants

Mercedes F1 team chief Toto Wolff admits that the nerves were tingling in the final stages of the Singapore Grand Prix as he watched Daniel Ricciardo reel in Nico Rosberg in a last gasp duel for victory. After the race, which Rosberg won by less than half a second, Wolff admitted to Sky, 'We nearly peed our pants at the end. It was so close and how it should be in Formula 1. Four really quick cars, different strategies and I must really take my hat off to Red Bull as well, they pulled off a great strategy at the end.' Asked why his team did not follow by pitting Rosberg at that point, Wold replied, 'We couldn't do that because we would have lost the lead… Ricciardo out of the blocks...
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