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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says a miscommunication caused by the timing of the teams flight home caused the short-lived protest of Max Verstappens driving after the Japanese Grand Prix.Verstappen held off Hamilton late in the race at Suzuka with a move Wolff later called refreshing but potentially over the line. Mercedes formally protested Verstappens driving, but by the time it was lodged the Dutchman and Lewis Hamilton had already left the circuit.Wanting to speak to both drivers, the FIA said it would have to defer the protest -- and therefore keep the result provisional -- until this weekends U.S. Grand Prix. A confusing couple of minutes followed, where Hamilton deleted one tweet and then questioned the teams protest in another, before Mercedes withdrew the complaint.Wolff says team representatives still at the circuit had been unable to contact him at the crucial moment a decision had to be made about lodging a complaint.It was a miscommunication, he explained in Austins Friday press conference. When we left the circuit, I said that the Verstappen manoeuvre was a hard manoeuvre but probably what we want to see in F1. It is refreshing and I think the drivers need to sort that out among themselves on track. We decided not to step in.Then there was an unfortunate coincidence that we took off and left and the team had a minute to decide whether to protest or not. And that is what they did. Once we were able to communicate again, which was 30 minutes after take-off, we decided to withdraw the protest.Hamiltons tweets came after a weekend which saw the Englishman at odds with the media for what he felt was disrespectful to the media for the reporting of his use of Snapchat in a press conference. The world champion has looked much more relaxed in Austin this weekend and Wolff thinks Suzuka was just an example of pressure getting the better of him.I think that generally all of us we underestimate the pressure that is on these guys. A couple of races before the end of the season there is all to win and all to lose. And I guess after Malaysia when he was in the lead, 25 points to take, the engine blew up.That was a very difficult situation for him to cope. As cool as someone might seem to the outside, inside it kind of eats you up -- and that may be why the weekend in Suzuka was a bit difficult for him. 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Theyre a decent team, we know that, Kilkenny said.Fair play if they want to do that, thats obviously their aim.Everyones got aims - our aim is to win on Wednesday night.Kilkenny is no stranger to big games, having played in the the 2011 Asian Cup final with the Socceroos and play-off finals in England, along with Leeds Uniteds famous third-round 2010 FA Cup defeat of fierce rivals Manchester United.Now he has the chance to do it on one of the biggest stages in Australian domestic football with a franchise hungry to succeed.Its a club going places. 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