Mercedes car ‘a nasty piece of work’ blasts Wolff
AFP | Miami
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A furious Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff labelled his team’s car as a “nasty piece of work” and expressed frustration at the lack of improvements made to the vehicle in the past year.
Both Mercedes drivers struggled with their car in the tricky conditions on the resurfaced Miami track.
Adding to Mercedes woe, Fernando Alonso, in the Aston Martin, with a Mercedes engine, finished second-fastest in qualifying.
Wolff was certainly in no mood to consider Russell’s grid position any kind of positive.
“I take no enjoyment from finishing sixth. It’s the lack of comprehension of what it is, that makes this car such a nasty piece of work,” he said.
“The car is not a nice car, not a good car,” said Wolff. “I would say the performance is just really bad, and for George and Lewis it just really went south.
You could see in the first sector the car really wasn’t there. “When things go bad they compound bad and this has happened for him (Hamilton) and for all of us as a team,” he said.
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