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Mercedes has 'no doubt' Hamilton will recover

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says he is certain Lewis Hamilton's failure to win the Monaco Grand Prix will not impact on his form.

Having been beaten by team-mate Nico Rosberg in the Spanish Grand Prix, Hamilton responded with pole position in Monaco and looked set for a dominant victory. However, a strategic error from Mercedes saw Hamilton called in to the pits during a late safety car period, dropping him from first to third.

Wolff has explained how the error happened but says he doesn't expect Hamilton to dwell on the disappointment for too long.

"He has such a mental strength and he is on a roll," Wolff said. "It must be very sore to lose this one because it was his to win, but I have no doubt that he will recover as quickly as he always did."

And Wolff says there is little Mercedes can do now other than apologise to Hamilton and try to move on from the mistake.

"I am went to see him in the [media] scrum and we win and we lose together. That one was on the team and I apologised and that’s probably the only thing you can do. He is a great leader and a great driver and I am sure that he will understand that sometimes we make errors and this was such a situation."

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.