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Wolff wants improvement on race starts, not strategy calls
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has singled out race starts as his team's biggest weakness at the midway point of the 2018 season. Pole sitter Lewis Hamilton lost the lead off the line at the start of the British Grand Prix, which also contributed to his getting spun around by Kimi Raikkonen. "We need to find some performance in the race starts to avoid incidents like we saw [at Silverstone}," Wolff said. "What we need to understand is where can we improve and where can we engineer." Wolff said that improving the starts were more important than getting worked up about race strategies. The team was criticised for not bringing Hamilton into the pits under a virtual safety car in...
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