Wolff didn't expect a lot in Hungary

Toto Wolff is delighted with Mercedes' results on Sunday at the Hungaroring and admits that there was initially a plan of damage limitation.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has expressed his delight with the results Mercedes achieved on Sunday with a Lewis Hamilton victory and a P5 finish for Valtteri Bottas.

"We came to Hungary with damage limitation as our motto," Wolff told The Checkered Flag.

"So it's pretty good to be leaving after out-scoring our rivals, even if just by a few small points."

Wolff has heaped praise on both of his drivers, despite Bottas only finishing fifth after starting in P2.

"Lewis drove a faultless race," Wolff said.

"He made a perfect start, then started building the gap on the UltraSoft tyre. He took that first set longer than we had planned before pitting, then managed the Soft extremely well to the finish. It's an easy race to summarise but that doesn't take anything away from the skill that it took to deliver such a polished performance."

Bottas clashed with Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo on Sunday, but doesn't place the blame on any of the drivers.

"In the other car, Valtteri drove what I think was his best race in his time so far at Mercedes," Wolff revealed.

"He held position at the start and then did a perfect job after pitting early until he started to run out of tyres in the final laps. I saw the contacts with Sebastian and Daniel as racing incidents: he was on the dirty inside line in each case and was defending with everything he had left; the trouble was that he didn't have a lot left at that stage.

"He raced hard and fifth place is not much of a reward after that drive. Lewis' win is the perfect way to finish the first part of the season but we know that this one is going down to the wire."