F1 2017 SEASON: NEWS - RUMOURS

Poor Kimi.

 

Didn't Bernie suggest a wacky racers track with short cuts?

 

With bananas and spiney shells.

 

Them lines... wow

 

Unsurprisingly Mercedes are now in full back peddling mode.


Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has admitted that his team was wrong to have tried to impose team orders on Lewis Hamilton at the Formula 1 season finale in Abu Dhabi.

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/w...ng-call-with-abu-dhabi-gp-team-orders-858018/

 

I was just about to post this

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12...-giving-lewis-hamilton-orders-at-abu-dhabi-gp

What I don't like about this (as you say) is the constant changing of view point depending on which they driver they need/want to cajole. They are spineless in every decision they have NOT made over their drivers since 2014.

 

I don't think it has anything to do with favoring one particular driver over another at a particular time. I genuinely think they're clueless. They can't even present a unified opinion which makes the team look ridiculous when Lauda and Wolff jump in front of mics at different ends of the pit lane contradicting each other.

 

the genius to made that engine won these titles, not wolff... the engine is that good even wolff couldnt mess it up.

put wolff in ferrari and itd be even worse than it is today.

 

what should Wolfe have done then? Suspend Hamilton for a race or 2 after Malaysia 2013? And then again after Bahrain 2014? Truth is it's a bit of 'damned if he did, damned if he didn't' He puts the team first, which, as team boss, is the right thing to do.

 

Of course they wouldn't, so even hinting that they might was the proper bonkers bit. It comes across like they're just making it up as they go along.

 

They didn't though, that was the media taking a few words and then extrapolating to the 'worst scenario' from there. Wolfe even said he'd probably have done the same in Lewis' position during the interview

 

But they did hint at it publicly by saying they'd have to go away and think about how to deal with it. It was a situation of their own making, created by issuing an order to Hamilton to speed up which surely they knew he wouldn't do.

Wolff and Lauda running that team are like the bloomin chuckle brothers.

 

They won't find it so hard once they have a clear #2 next season.

 

I'm sure Mercedes could struggle

 

they didn't hint that he would be sacked or suspended, just that they would have to look at it, which is what they did, a bit like RBR at, funnily enough, Malaysia 2013. Wolfe said he would probably do the same and that he was disappointed Rosberg didn't force the issue and go for the overtake, that didn't sound like a man who was going to be particularly hard on the misbehaviour. Lauda was a bit more damning, but how much real control does Lauda have? I don't think he has that much say tbh.

 

Lauda can't keep his trap shut about anything. Maybe if they jettisoned him they wouldn't look so daft half the time.

 

They only look daft if you believe the media hyperbole, watching the interviews which the suppositions are based upon, you come away with a completely different view.

 

I can only go off what they say in reality. How they want two top drivers yet are to scared to let them race, how Wolff and Lauda seem to contradict each other and how Lauda seems to keep putting his foot in his mouth.

Recently Lauda made some comments about Rosberg retiring, and how it as left the team in the worst possible position. Now we all know that's bollocks because they could most likely have the pick of the bunch and have a truly formidable line up. Now I'm sure it came as a surprise but it's far from left them in the crap. It's left them with a massive opportunity, and if they don't have potential replacement in mind then that's them being short sighted.

Maybe I'm just bored by Merc and their dominance and have become a bit jaded. I don't know. Don't get me wrong, Hamilton has won a **** load with them, and while the results are good, I much prefer seeing him actually have to race, so I've been as bored as the next man.

 

It's a bit rich of Lauda criticising Rosberg for leaving the team in the lurch, given the circumstances of his own retirement, as Rosberg himself said.