🏁 Toto Wolff exclusive interview: 'I won't tell Lewis Hamilton to move aside for George Russell'
Is the Mercedes boss confident his team have turned the corner ahead of the #MonacoGP?
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Is the Mercedes boss confident his team have turned the corner ahead of the #MonacoGP?
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telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2022…
From the moment Mercedes’ car started bouncing up and down like a skittish kangaroo at the final pre-season test in Bahrain in March, the hatches have been firmly battened down at Brackley.
It has been a chastening period for a team who have become accustomed to success ⤵️
It has been a chastening period for a team who have become accustomed to success ⤵️
Wolff, though, is confident the team have turned the corner now.
After George Russell finished third in Barcelona last weekend, and Lewis Hamilton roared through the field from 19th to fifth, the Austrian publicly declared his team were back in the title fight
After George Russell finished third in Barcelona last weekend, and Lewis Hamilton roared through the field from 19th to fifth, the Austrian publicly declared his team were back in the title fight
Could there come a time, if Mercedes do get back into this championship battle and they need to claw back every available point they can, they choose to impose team orders on their drivers to try to help whichever one is ahead in the drivers’ championship? @tomcary_tel asks Wolff
🗣️ “One hundred per cent we will allow them to race,” Wolff insists.
“Until a driver is mathematically out of contention, we’re not making such a call"
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“Until a driver is mathematically out of contention, we’re not making such a call"
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❓ What if it were the other way around and it was seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton ahead?
“It makes no difference"
“It makes no difference"
"In Spain Lewis was 30-odd seconds behind the last car in the field and he finished fourth [sic]. So that is a car that is capable of winning a race."
It is unlikely to be this weekend if practice on Friday is anything to go by 👇
It is unlikely to be this weekend if practice on Friday is anything to go by 👇
🗣️ Hamilton complained the porpoising was back to such an extent he needed “elbow pads in the cockpit” and was “f------ losing his mind”
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“We might take one on the nose here,” Wolff concedes ahead of this weekend's #MonacoGP.
“Finish 10th and 12th. But it's not going to change my opinion that the car was quick in Barcelona and that is encouraging"
“Finish 10th and 12th. But it's not going to change my opinion that the car was quick in Barcelona and that is encouraging"
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