Ex-F1 team boss Eddie Jordan blasts Toto Wolff for 'disingenuous and crass' criticism of Mercedes concept
Mercedes’ lacklustre start to🃏 F1 2023 led Wolff to admit his team made a mistake in continuing to pursue their unique ‘zero sidepod’ concept.
Wolff demanded “radical” changes after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton finished fifth and over 50 seconds behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s do♈minant Red Bull in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. ꧃;
The Austrian bemoaned the Bahrain GP as one of🤡 his “worst days in racing”, while Hamilton had earlier described Mercedes’ current concept as be🔯ing “on the wrong track”.
Bu♚t Wolff’s public comments haꦗve not impressed Jordan.
“He’s the CE💖O, he’s the boss. The buck stops with him. This is happening under his watch,” Jordan said on the Formula For Success podcas🅰t.
“To blame or criticise anybody in his design team is actually dising🀅enuous. It’s really crass.
“I hatꦑe to hear thatꦫ, because he must be a man, stand up and take it on the chin and say, ‘my team, my people, we have failed to get the job successfully done at this moment. However, there are times ahead that we’re looking forward to and we will be there much stronger than we were in 2022’.
“I think that Toto is strong enough, big enough and m෴an enough to front this up and actually sort it out.”
Respected F1 technical expert Craig Scarborough has warned that Hamilton and Wolff’s “snappy comments” risk leading to a168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: “civil war” at Mercedes.
Mercedes, who sit third in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2023 constructors’ standings, will be aiming for an improvement at 🅺this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
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