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Wolff worried about poor starts

Toto Wolff believes a hardware problem rather than an electronic issue is to blame for Mercedes' poor race starts. Slow getaways have been the world champions' Achilles heel in both of the opening races of 2016, with Lewis Hamilton as low as fourth and seventh at the first corners in Australia and Bahrain respectively, despite starting from pole position. Hamilton blamed himself for his tardy start in the desert, but Wolff believes the problem stemmed from a fault with Mercedes' own systems. "We tend to believe it is more a hardware issue than a control electronics problem and you can't solve that from one race to the other," Wolff said. Questioned whether Hamilton could have...
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