Toto Wolff has asked his team to stay focused as the 2018 title battle is not over yet. Lewis Hamilton now has one hand on the Championship trophy while Mercedes themselves open up the constructors lead to 78.
Hamilton can actually win the championship next time out in Austin. He just needs to score eight more points than Sebastian Vettel. Despite this, team boss Wolff settles the party ship.
"I think it's important to stay concentrated," Wolff said in an interview on Crash.
"I don't believe that having your hands on the trophy, because you either have it in your hands or not, and we haven't got it in our hands."
“We haven’t got the drivers trophy in our hands and we haven’t got the constructors trophy in our hands, which is a little bit further away.
“So the way we’ve approached things is take it race weekend by race weekend and try to optimise the car for every weekend and really take it as an ambitious target to perform at all tracks in all kinds of conditions."
Wolff then went on to confirm he still worries about a reliability issue plaguing the teams lead. Probably even more so since seeing it occur in Austria earlier this season.
"The freak incidents happen everywhere. A DNF and the consequent bad result suddenly wipes off a large chunk of your points," Wolff concluded.
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