Although Mercedes took the victory in Brazil, it was not an easy weekend for Lewis Hamilton. The Briton was disqualified after qualifying, forcing him to start the sprint race from the back of the grid. That was because of his DRS system, which failed the test by a few millimeters because his system had failed.
During the Grand Prix, Hamilton then fought Verstappen, who defended himself tooth and nail. He and the Briton went off track together, but race officials saw nothing wrong with it. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff previously called that laughable.
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Wolff is done with diplomacy
Asked whether he thinks Mercedes is being treated unfairly, he does not want to say so out loud, but the dissatisfaction is certainly present with the Austrian. “I don’t want to whine too much, because that’s not how I look at the sport. We just had a lot of blows in the face this weekend with all those decisions that could have been in our favor or against,” he said. among other RacingNews365.
“But if all the decisions are against you, then that’s just something that makes me angry. In that case, I will defend my team and my drivers against everything that comes at us. I’ve always been very diplomatic, but the times of diplomacy are over since this weekend,” the team boss warns.
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Wolff: “There’s nothing wrong with racing hard”
According to Wolff, it’s all fine to race hard, but he thought it was ridiculous that one race is not allowed and another race is allowed. “It’s about what the rules say. If the rules say you can – and I would love that – then you can, then it’s fine.”
“I have nothing against the principle of racing hard. Racing hard is great and that should be allowed, but not if it has been said before that you cannot force someone off the track,” the team boss of last weekend concluded. Mercedes off.
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Verstappen powerless against Hamilton’s super-fast Mercedes
Of course there is a lot of talk everywhere about the fight between Verstappen and Hamilton and about the dominant way in which Mercedes took the victory in Brazil. How had that been accomplished? This and more in the new podcast!
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