Wolff issued a stern rebuke to Russell and warned how the incident could have an impact on the championship ambitions this season for Lewis Hamilton and the team. Russell is a Mercedes junior driver racing for Williams and is considered highly likely to take a seat at Mercedes in the near future. Bottas’s place at Mercedes is considered to be under threat from Russell for next season and the British driver implied afterwards that Bottas would not have defended so vigorously for ninth place had he not been involved. It meant taking risks, and the other car is a Mercedes in front of him.

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