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Mercedes Executive Director Toto Wolff has admitted that the team felt the pressure of Daniel Ricciardo's charge towards the end of the Singapore Grand Prix.
Rosberg led the race from start to finish but Red Bull's Ricciardo closed to within 0.4 seconds on the final lap of the race.
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Traffic and fading tyres for the Australian allowed Rosberg to hold on for the win but Wolff concedes it wasn't discounting the threat from behind.
"We nearly peed our pants at the end," the Austrian joked. "It was so close at the end, how it should be in Formula One. Four really great cars, different strategies and I must take my hat off to Red Bull with strategy by pitting him, we couldn't do that. Ricciardo was out of the blocks with amazing pace and it was really exciting at the end."
Speaking about Rosberg, he said: "He was really great all weekend. They both struggled with the brakes, we were probably a little bit too marginal. He got it under control well and controlled the pace."
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