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Wolff hints at team order during sprint again: 'Presumably'
With a front row start on the grid as well as a substantial advantage in top speed, it looks like it will be sunshine and roses for Mercedes at Monza. Yet the team will be faced with a difficult decision on Saturday; will it allow Valtteri Bottas to surrender his deserved pole position during the sprint race, in order to maximise Lewis Hamilton 's points haul? Wolff is seriously considering it. "It's difficult, generally", Wolff argues to Sky Sports. "When you have to call team orders because all of us as racers, we don't want to see that," Still, it won't be the first time Mercedes has sacrificed Bottas' results in service of his British teammate. Read more Doornbos on...
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