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Wolff: Absence not a factor in Mercedes drivers’ run-ins

Toto Wolff has dismissed any link between his recent absence from the Mercedes team and the successive flash points endured by its drivers in Japan and in Qatar. Wolff took a two-race absence of leave from his duties as team principal to undergo knee surgery and a recovery period. During that time, the intra-team rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and George Russell ramped up a notch, with the pair nearly colliding during a tight wheel-to-wheel battle at Suzuka and then properly coming together at the first corner at Lusail. While absent from his command post inside the Mercedes garage, Wolff watched events from his home in Monte Carlo thanks to a remote set-up that kept him in the loop, but...
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