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Wolff: Clash between Hamilton and Rosberg 'unacceptable'
+ Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has called the lap two clash between his two drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton “unacceptable.”
The team-mates made contact on the second lap after Rosberg, who had fallen behind Hamilton on the run down to La Source on lap one, attempted to pass the 2008 champion around the outside of Les Combes, the German trimming the right-rear tyre of the sister Mercedes, causing a puncture, while also badly damaging his own front wing.
While Rosberg recovered to finish second behind Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo, Hamilton retired from the race late on in an effort to conserve his engine, his own race destroyed.
“It was an unacceptable risk,” a barely contained...
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