Toto Wolff explains what he thinks ruined Mercedes' race at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix.
But the team were ultimately forced to convert to a conventional two-stop and Russell could only finish seventh, two places ahead of Hamilton in ninth.
"We had a second and third stint that was super quick and we would've been racing for a podium but an atrocious first stint."I think it was the right thing to do at the beginning because it looked pretty stable in terms of lap times. "I don't know what the different strategy would've been, whether we stayed on the medium to start, but we still had two really terrible hard tyres to run through," the seven-time world champion said.
Despite another disappointing race, Wolff is taking the positives from the weekend and insists Mercedes are going in the right direction.
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