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Toto Wolff admits that Mercedes blocked the idea of reversed-grid races

Toto Wolff has confirmed that he blocked the idea of an F1 experiment with reversed-grids. F1 had been keen to look into trial the test in three races next season, including France, Belgium and Russia. There was a team meeting last weekend to establish where people stood on the idea and it found that there was a unanimous decision not in favour of the reverse-grids. Read more Toto Wolff admits Mercedes 'didn't know' if Hamilton's hard tyres would last Wolff admitted Mercedes were one of the teams against it and believed it would have been a disadvantage to the sport moving forward. "I did it because we have a responsibility in F1 to preserve the DNA," Wolff said as quoted by...
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