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

Mercedes F1 chief Toto Wolff defended his use of team orders to help Lewis Hamilton win the Russian Grand Prix at Sochi Autodrom on Sunday and said he would rather people thought he was unsporting than stupid. The victory, with Valtteri Bottas told to move aside for his Silver Arrows teammate at the halfway point, allowed Hamilton to stretch his championship lead over Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to 50 points with five races left. There is now every chance of Hamilton wrapping up his fifth title with a race or two to spare. “Somebody needs to be the baddie sometimes and it’s me today,” Wolff told reporters. “You need to weigh it up; To be the baddie on Sunday evening, for many...
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