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Wolff: I'd rather be a baddie than an idiot

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has insisted that he would rather be viewed as a "baddie" for one race and win the championship rather than an "idiot" if the Silver Arrows failed to win the constructors' title because he failed to initiate team orders. During Sunday's Russian Grand Prix, Valtteri Bottas was positioned perfectly to claim the victory ahead of the competition, but was ordered to swap positions with Lewis Hamilton in P2 so the Brit could win and subsequently earn more points in the championship race against Sebastian Vettel. Wolff admits that he was the villain of the day, but that it will be worth it if Mercedes win the title. “Sometimes somebody needs...
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