F1 Italian GP: Wolff refuses to push blame for start problems
Toto Wolff says Mercedes will carry out a full investigation into its start clutch procedure back at its Brackley fact🃏ory and is confident his team will solve the issue before the next race in Singapore.
Lewis Hamilton suffered a poor blast off the start line and dropped from his pole position and down to sixth at the exit of the💃 first chicane which compromisꦡed his race at Monza but did recover to second place behind team-mate Nico Rosberg.
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Despite securing its fourth 1-2 finish of the year, of which Ros🦹berg has led home three, Wolff is keen for Mercedes to understand why it keeps becoming expos💦ed to poor starts with its single clutch system.
Both Rosb🌊erg and Hamilton have suffered bad starts this year with the single clutch, a technical regulationꦏ change for 2016, but has refused to point the finger of blame at any particular problem.
"The reason the rules were chang🌊ed last year was to give more responsibility to the driver and make it more variable," Wolff said. "But it's just what happens, you have good starts and bad starts, and I think our system has improved a lot. But obviously today machine and driver got it wrong.
"We can see is that it is a procedural thing so I don't want to blame anybody. Neither Lewis, nor the engineers, nor the systems. I think we have to properly address that topic because it cost him a race and I think we all n𓆉eed to stick the heads together to avoid that for him ꧙and the team.