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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has hit out at Esteban Gutierrez after the Mexican held up his drivers during the Singapore Grand Prix.
The Haas driver has been under scrutiny a number of times this season for ignoring blue flags, and Wolff was again critical of the ex-Sauber man on Sunday.
"We ran into a little bit of a traffic situation with Gutierrez and Felipe [Massa] who were fighting for position," he said. "Gutierrez at least makes it the same for everybody - he doesn't let anybody overtake."
"Honestly, I need to say there is a fight for the race win going on between two guys fighting for every tenth, and then you have one guy cruising around and interfering in the race, and it happens to always be the same guy."
"We were shouting to Charlie [Whiting]. Felipe went out of the way and Esteban, who is a lovely boy, continued to cruise out there and was enjoying the gap he had made to Felipe."
However, Hass team principal hit back at Wolfs remarks, branding them "a Toto comment".
"He is a bit of a punching ball at the moment," said Steiner. "But I think he was pretty good, very fair. He was racing Massa so why should he get out of the way? You get out of the way when you need to."
"I don't see a problem with what he did. It's easy to say, when you're so dominating as Mercedes is."
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