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Bottas attempted to challenge Hamilton before taking the lead in Sunday's race following a collision with Sebastian Vettel while he was leading for Ferrari
. Mercedes and Wolverhampton intervened with a radio message from the team to "maintain the position".
Wolff said the message did not mean Hamilton, who declared his 14th German victory on the grid as the biggest of his career. Bottas is clearly a number one driver.
"No, absolutely not," he says. "If it was the other way around, with Valtteri in the lead and Lewis second, we would have made the same call, an identical call, to bring him home regardless of who was ahead."
Wolff added It was still raining at the time of the message and the team did not want to take any chances.
He said: "What I said to Valtteri, it's something that I would say in the team, I would have done the same thing." [19659002] "It's the transparency that we have in the team, that we would not make a difference." It was important to score the double podium, the first and the second, in order to recover some points lost by bad luck "
Hamilton's astonishing victory, hailed as the biggest of his career, raised him 17 points from Vettel in the drivers championship race after 11 of 21 races this year, he said. is 66 years ahead of Bottas, fourth.
"It's a very difficult call because on one side you want to optimize the result and that's what you need to do, but on the other side, you have to give both drivers a chance to win the race, "said Wolff
Ferrari had also used the team orders in asking Kimi Raikkonen, who finished third, to allow Wolff's Vettel said: "Kimi was unlucky in a few races early in the season, where the strategy was against him, and I think Ferrari struggled to find the right call there. It's understandable. "
Sunday's result meant that the leadership of the championship changed again for the sixth time this season as the tight fight between Hamilton and Vettel remained so hotly contested.
Hamilton says he feared his lead could again be short as the teams travel to Budapest for this week's Hungarian Grand Prix, the last before the European summer holidays
"This is not usually our track the stronger, but hopefully circuit, "he said, referring to the dusty, tight and technical Hungaroring where chbadis performance is important
" Hope this extra power piece that Ferrari has found does not not serve them as well and we have a decent fight … "
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