モーター racing-Mercedes lick 負傷させるs after `Armageddon´ home race
By Abhishek Takle
HOCKENHEIM, Germany, July 28 (Reuters) - Mercedes 決まり文句／製法 One boss Toto Wolff spoke of Armageddon, and karma, on Sunday after a 目印 home German Grand Prix left the 支配的な 支持する／優勝者s with only a sour taste.
The team went into the 週末 celebrating 125 years of motorsport 関与, and their 200th start as a 建設者, but there was little to toast at the end of a 大混乱／混沌とした, rain-攻撃する，衝突する afternoon.
Mercedes 得点する／非難する／２０d just two points after 吊りくさび Hamilton finished a scrappy 11th but was elevated two places thanks to 刑罰，罰則s for the Alfa Romeo drivers while Valtteri Bottas 衝突，墜落d out.
It was their worst result since last year´s Austrian Grand Prix when neither car made it to the chequered 旗.
"I do believe in karma and when you want to do 特に 井戸／弁護士席 things can go wrong," said Wolff, whose team, until Sunday, had tasted 敗北・負かす just once this season.
"Maybe you get distracted and maybe you are doing things 異なって to how you would 普通は do. I don´t know.
"At the end we will learn and summarise it rationally tomorrow."
Mercedes had pulled out all the stops, with their cars painted in a special one-off livery, team-members dressed in 1950s-style 道具 and company bigwigs and Mercedes-Benz board members in 出席.
They were also 存在 filmed for the second season of the Netflix 文書の series `運動 to 生き残る´.
What had started so promisingly, with Hamilton on 有利な立場（位置）, unravelled spectacularly after the Briton had seemed in 支配（する）／統制する.
The 34-year-old, laid low by a flu-like bug, 粉砕するd a 前線 wing and collected a 刑罰，罰則 for a pitlane offence, while even the usually 井戸／弁護士席-演習d Mercedes took nearly a minute to change his tyres and 前線 wing.
Bottas 衝突，墜落d out while running fourth behind the slower Toro Rosso and Racing Point cars of Daniil Kvyat and Lance Stroll.
Wolff said the manner of the 敗北・負かす was not more painful b ecause of the significance of the 週末 or the スポットライト on his team.
"No, it is not embarrassing, it is モーター racing and いつかs you´ve got to take a 非難する on the nose, on the chin as you say, and learn," said the Austrian.
"We´ve got to think about what went wrong today and then if things come together, like Valtteri 衝突，墜落ing out at the end which was not 広大な／多数の／重要な, this ends in an Armageddon 週末 for us."
"We are still 主要な the 選手権 and in a good position which must not be forgotten."
Hamilton, who 延長するd his advantage over Bottas to 41 points, said it had been his "worst day at the office for a long, long time."
"I think it was like one 支配 after another and like snakes and ladders," said Hamilton, who went into the 週末 having won seven of this season´s 10 races.
"And I kept hitting the snakes today." (Editing by Alan Baldwin/Toby Davis)
