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Ted Kravitz underlined the growing disconnect between Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff after yesterday’s Australian Grand Prix.

Speaking on Sky Sports, Kravitz said: « I thought it was optimistic that Toto Wolff still believes that this car is somehow going to get there.

« Clearly, I don’t think Lewis Hamilton believes it. I think Lewis Hamilton thinks it’s cursed with the same bad handling characteristics, especially in the rear of the car that last year’s car, and the car the year before it, had as well.

« Clearly this car is still not right. Toto, when I spoke to him, said: ‘I still think we can make it right’, but Lewis pretty much wrote off this year’s world championship. »