Last Updated: November 06, 2023, 02:00 IST
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Last 12 months’s winners Mercedes suffered a nightmare in Brazil on Sunday with sad staff boss Toto Wolff evaluating their Formula One automotive to a threewheeler and saying it didn’t need to win a race this season.
SAO PAULO: Last 12 months’s winners Mercedes suffered a nightmare in Brazil on Sunday with sad staff boss Toto Wolff evaluating their Formula One automotive to a three-wheeler and saying it didn’t need to win a race this season.
While Red Bull’s Max Verstappen gained the Sao Paulo Grand Prix for his seventeenth win of the season, and the staff’s nineteenth in 20 races, Mercedes had seven occasions world champion Lewis Hamilton end eighth and George Russell retire.
Russell led Hamilton one-two at Interlagos final November, nonetheless the once-dominant staff’s most up-to-date win, however this time Mercedes weren’t even shut.
Hamilton spoke on Saturday of his eagerness to consign his mishandling automotive to historical past on the finish of the season and Wolff agreed solely.
“An inexcusable performance,” the Austrian advised Sky Sports tv. “There’s even no words for that.
“That car finished second last week and the week before and whatever we did to it was horrible. Lewis survived out there but George…I can only feel for the two driving such a miserable thing.
“It shows how difficult the car is,” continued Wolff. “It’s on a knife-edge.
“We are clearly not world champions on sprint race weekends… that car almost drove like (it was) on three wheels and not on four.
“This car doesn’t deserve a win. We need to push for the last two races and recover.”
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
