Toto Wolff on Lewis Hamilton’s torment after Abu Dhabi in 2021: “Incredibly difficult”
Hamilton looked set to claim an all-time record eighth F1 championship but was foiled in remarkable circumstances when race director Michael Masi incorrectly applied a Safety Car rule, allowing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen to overtake to pinch the title.
Hamilton spent the following year in an uncompetitive Mercedes while watching his Red Bull rival tot up a second consecutive title, amid the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 cost cap scandal.
“We have been together now for many years and talk as often as possible,” Wolff says to about Hamilton’s agony po🌠st-Abu Dhabi.
“But that period was incredibly diffic🌳ult, because he had given it everything and was on the verge of a huge achievement.
“One of the most difficult things in sp꧑ort is processing disappointment. That is when the team comes into its own𒈔.”
Mercedes endured an awful 2022, coming nowhere near a challenge for the t♉itle and only winning a solitary race, with George Russell claimed at thꦡe penultimate opportunity.
Hamilton ended the🐬 year winless for the first time in his F1 career. Aged 38, he hopes to return in a true battle with Verstappen for supremacy but he has his back against the🦄 wall in a way that he has never experienced before.
“Do not write us off,” W🔯olff vows. “In this life, you never stop giving it everything.”
J💯ames was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Americꦰan sports, to football, to F1.
