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Toto Wolff admits Mercedes may be forced to
start splitting Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg's strategies to fend off
the challenge from Ferrari. The Silver Arrows tried to keep both drivers on the same
strategy in 2014 to ensure neither felt like their team-mate was being
favoured by the pitwall.
However, after losing out to Ferrari in a straight fight in Malaysia, Wolff admits their strategy hand may now be forced.
“We have always considered if it was about winning the race about splitting the strategy with one car,” he told Sky Sports F1.
“But
of course that caused a lot of controversy last year when it works out
for one car, but not the other and then you are being blamed ‘why did
you do that?’ We had a bit of a margin, but this year it seems that
Ferrari have caught up and if we need to split the strategy in order to
secure a race win then we will do that.”
Mercedes finished
Practice One in China first and second, with third-placed Sebastian
Vettel over a second slower than pacesetter Hamilton. However, Wolff is
still worried by the Scuderia’s race pace.
“It was a good first session, we tested a couple of things and the results were okay,” he added.
...SkySports
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