Toto Wolff admits that Red Bull’s Max Verstappen will be the clear favourite at the next race in Hungary. “On paper, we can’t claim that we are among the favourites,” the Mercedes boss, whose title contending driver Lewis Hamilton controversially clashed with his Dutch rival at Silverstone and went on to win, told RTL. “But of course we will stretch wherever we can to keep the championship open or maybe even get an advantage,” Wolff said. “But it will certainly be much more difficult for us there than at Silverstone. So if you have a bad race, like we did before Silverstone, then we are written off. “Then we win at Silverstone and suddenly we have momentum again,” Wolff added.

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