YAS MARINA, Abu Dhabi -- Toto Wolff says the Mercedes pit wall will do its best not to impact Sunday's title fight at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but expects his drivers to adhere to the team's rules of engagement in return.
Rosberg and Hamilton will go head to head of the championship on Sunday, with Rosberg still the favourite thanks to his existing 12-point lead in the championship. Hamilton will start from pole position ahead of Rosberg in second, but in order to stand a chance of winning the title needs Rosberg to finish fourth or lower.
It has been suggested that Hamilton could back Rosberg into the chasing pack in order to put his teammate under pressure, but Wolff says he trusts his drivers will be "sportsmanlike".
"I've heard the comments before," he said. "We can't really interfere in the final race, we let them race until now. They both know what we deem as being sportsmanlike. There is a lot at stake tomorrow, it is a drivers' world championship to be won or lost.
"I think both will have thought about all possibilities, as long as they are not overstepping the mark in what we see as being unsportsmanlike driving we are fine. I think we need to let them go and race.
"We don't want change the result tomorrow because it would be wrong for the title decider and turn everything upside down that we have developed in the last couple of years. The drivers are great sportsmen and they know what it would mean to overstep the line which would cause a lot of controversy and therefore I have trust this is going to go well tomorrow for the benefit of the team, the team spirit and the fans."
Wolff said Mercedes will do its best not to impact a straight fight between its drivers on the track.
"It is a difficult situation for all of us in the team. You might say we are in a very privileged position that whoever wins this weekend is going to be a Mercedes driver but the truth is we have kept neutral over these last three years, tomorrow is going to be difficult, it has been already, to give them support when they need it, not interfere too much or over-manage but just let them fight it out on track.
"We need to give them a car that has pace, which we have seen today we were able to achieve, a reliable car for tomorrow and a strategy that works for both. That is another tricky area with the Red Bull's on an offset strategy and the Ferrari pace. So the main objective is to interfere the least in the F1 driver world championship and let the drivers fight it out on track."
Asked how big a headache Red Bull could be, Wolff added: "We were expecting them to have one car on the super-soft and not both, it was interesting. It is an offset strategy, it is not the fastest strategy. Our algorithms say the ultra-soft is the better tyre because you can't take the super soft much further, only a couple of laps.
"I guess Red Bull hasn't got the pace to win on the same strategy and the offset strategy gives them potential. It is a bit of a headache in a same way that Ferrari's pace is a headache. Our main objective is being fought out on track, when the lights go green it is all that matters."