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Toto Wolff wants the final Grand Prix to be fair and clean.
The highly controversial 'double points' situation threatens to eat up Hamilton's big lead with something like a mechanical breakdown.
Even the architect of the scheme, Bernie Ecclestone, admitted in Brazil that he never envisaged his double points plan "would come to this sort of situation".
Lewis Hamilton departed Brazil with the message that the system is "unfair".
Mercedes' Toto Wolff is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport: "If it (reliability) wipes one of them (Hamilton or Rosberg) out, it will put a big shadow over the championship.
"Nobody likes the double points. We should talk about it and maybe get rid of it for next year," the team chief added.
"Every part on the cars in Abu Dhabi will be double checked. We will use all low-mileage parts," Wolff promised.
Toto Wolff also admitted he remains worried Hamilton and Rosberg will collide in Abu Dhabi, even though the venom appears to have disappeared from their relationship in the past weeks.
Toto Wolff disputes that.
It has emerged that Hamilton did not attend a team dinner on Saturday night while Rosberg did, but Wolff insists that both drivers still have full access to one another's technical information.
"The atmosphere in the team is intense," he revealed. "They didn't talk to each other here (in Brazil) but that's ok. The championship is in the decisive phase now and in the team we can really feel that."
Toto Wolff wants the final Grand Prix to be fair and clean.
The highly controversial 'double points' situation threatens to eat up Hamilton's big lead with something like a mechanical breakdown.
Even the architect of the scheme, Bernie Ecclestone, admitted in Brazil that he never envisaged his double points plan "would come to this sort of situation".
Lewis Hamilton departed Brazil with the message that the system is "unfair".
Mercedes' Toto Wolff is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport: "If it (reliability) wipes one of them (Hamilton or Rosberg) out, it will put a big shadow over the championship.
"Nobody likes the double points. We should talk about it and maybe get rid of it for next year," the team chief added.
"Every part on the cars in Abu Dhabi will be double checked. We will use all low-mileage parts," Wolff promised.
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| Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes AMG, in Brazil. (Photo: WRi2) |
Toto Wolff also admitted he remains worried Hamilton and Rosberg will collide in Abu Dhabi, even though the venom appears to have disappeared from their relationship in the past weeks.
Toto Wolff disputes that.
It has emerged that Hamilton did not attend a team dinner on Saturday night while Rosberg did, but Wolff insists that both drivers still have full access to one another's technical information.
"The atmosphere in the team is intense," he revealed. "They didn't talk to each other here (in Brazil) but that's ok. The championship is in the decisive phase now and in the team we can really feel that."