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Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes boss has ruled out “playing PlayStation” with the Formula 1 results to gift Lewis Hamilton a payback victory for their massive Monaco Grand Prix gaffe.

The world champion had been leading heading into the last 15 laps before they called him in for a mystery pit stop to gift victory to teammate Nico Rosberg.

Toto Wolff was speaking as the largest strategy team ever seen in F1, over 100 people, gathered at the team HQ in Brackley to pore over the actions that cost the world champion a crucial victory.

“You would want me to do this and then to start to play PlayStation with F1?” asked Wolff.

“No, we’re not doing this.”

This morning Mercedes were faced accusations close to arrogance from Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene.

“In my opinion, they were a bit too much convinced about their power. I recognise they are very intelligent and stronger than us, but this time we were smarter,” he said as Sebastian Vettel stole second in a slower car.

A blunder on a scale rarely seen in the sport’s history saw Mercedes strategy brain bank blow a major fuse when it mattered most at Monte Carlo.

They overthought the easiest decision in the world and opted for a pitstop that cost Hamilton certain victory.

Despite a history at the circuit that screams ‘track position is all’ they called the championship leader in for fresh rubber and it cost him the race.

Ahead of this morning’s post mortem in Brackley ordered by overlord Niki Lauda, Wolff told Mirror Sport he has complete confidence in strategy team leader James Vowles, despite another costly error by his boffins.

“I rate that guy and his guy as highly now as I did before the race. He was dragged into a system, fooled by the numbers,” added Wolff.

Mercedes engineers and the biggest strategy group F1 has ever seen, over 100 strategists, engineers, mechanics, management and boffins will be poring over the analysis of where it all went wrong.

But just as Mercedes ignored the history of strategy at Monaco and paid the price Wolff yet again insisted he will stick with just one strategy team for both drivers rather than put one team behind each as leading teams have done down the ages.

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He believes it would have incendiary results for the champions.

“As boring as it sounds we still represent a big brand,” said Wolff.

“We know that it’s about the drivers and they are the heroes and the gladiators and that’s all the fans are interested in, this is why we are doing it.

“But I don’t want to create a battle ground for two strategy groups fighting each other. It just creates disharmony in the team.”

While Hamilton revealed his urging that he had worn tyres contributed to the press for the unnecessary pit stop.

But the Austrian lauded Hamilton’s increasing maturity admitting he had been impressed the double champion showed such leadership qualities despite his disappointment.

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“I spoke to Lewis briefly in the media scrum and I said ‘sorry, apologies, we let you down’ and he said ‘ok’. So he was ok,” added wolff.

“Lewis will bounce back. Absolutely. Compare the Lewis from a year ago after a difficult Monaco race to the Lewis we have seen at Monaco.

“Losing a race which he owned, controlled and came out of it with a maturity and as a leader

“He motivates and inspires so many people in the team. The way he has matured and grown I see no risk in the coming races.

“He might have already punched a wall.

“It took him longer before but now it only takes a couple of hours, or maybe after such a bitter day it takes a couple of days but it will all have all disappeared emotionally by Montreal.”