“We’ve seen Toto Wolff in that mood a lot recently” | “That’s where the hurt comes from”
Mercedes secured fourth and eighth in qualifying, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton once again their lead driver.
Hamilton is set to start the race from third on the grid thanks to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change.
Despite the positive result for Hamilton, he was ove𓆉r 0.9s off Verstappen - an enormous margin.
Reacting to qualifying, Wolff said: “P3 is good. We coul♔dn’t really assess if our parts were working because of the tricky conditions. So let’s hope f♕or a dry Saturday and Sunday.”
Wolff also admitted he wasn’t sure t꧒he rear wing difference between his two drivers was the way to go as Russell struggled once again.
“You can see they have run very different rear wings and rear con♒figurations,” he✅ added. “You can see Lewis is able to extract more performance. It didn’t help today so we need to assess why.”
Immediately after ꩵWolff’s interview, Schiff explained why she thinks the German hasn’t been positive recently.
“I don’t thin൩k it was just today, we’ve seen him in that mood a lot recently,” she said. They wanted to be further up the order. The session wasn’t as representative ꦺas if the conditions were perfect.
“But he said that Lewi🅰s was able to extract more from the lower downforce rear wing than George, who had a higher downforce one. He tried to say it was down to Lewis, but George was losing time by having the higher downforce.
“It’s difficult to tell - it could’ve gone the other way around. I’m sure there are reasons why they ar🔥e running different configurations.
“We’ve seen Toto in that mood a lot recently. He said some pretty intense things at the past few races - ‘worst day eveꦏr’, these kinds of things.”
Mercedes simꦕulator drivꦚer Anthony Davidson pointed out the significant margin between Hamilton and Verstappen is “where the hurt comes from” for Wolff.
“They’ve just qualified almost a second behind Verstappen.💧 This is a constructor that has won eight championships! That hurts.
“[🌠Lewis and Max] drove brilliant laps. They were a second away. That’s where thജe hurt comes from.”
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