Toto Wolff stands by Mercedes' strategy gamble: ‘Every day of the week I’d do it again’

Running in second and fourth, Mercedes pit 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton under the Virtual Safety Car for new mediums.
At the time, Russell couldn’t pass 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz in front, who 🍃was deliberately backing off to stop Mercedes from revertꦡing to a two-stop strategy.
Mercedes’ call to pit their drivers under the VSC looked like it was going to be a🥂 masterstroke as Russell and Hamilton reeled the top three in.
Russell’s charge was halted by Sainz’s clever tactic to give Norriꦕs DRS - ensuring the Mercedes drivers couldn’t get past.
“We tried to win and we didn't,” Wolff said 𒐪after the race. “The positives are that I love the call from driver and strategy team to say, 'We're going for it'.
“Worst case was second an💞d fifth. Best case, we win or first and second. An⛦d our plan showed that at times.
“I think it was the absolute right call,🃏 we would have finished P2, P5 - maybe P2, P4, ꦯand we wanted to win the race.
“So, we took the risk and I would ever🌊y day of the week do it again."

Even though Mercedes weren’t able to win, Wolff is🐟 taking 𒉰plenty of positives from the weekend.
“Overall, I'm happy about the performance,” he added. “I'm happy about h🏅ow the car was all weekend, and I think we gave𒉰 it our best shot.
“I think this is the positive… we've bℱeen really strong here, we could have won th🐟e race.
“We could have finished first and second on merit and that is whatಌ we need to take from here and clearly will energise us even more that, on this particular track, we were strong.
“Not everything is wrong. But then you see on the planner, P1 and P2 popping up at times and you think about 'Could have been an unbelievable d💎ay' and it's not.
“But I'd rather🏅 then fall back on the positives of this weekend and go back home and say 'that was a good on⛦e'.”

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