Rosberg: “Wolff didn’t tell Hamilton the truth” | FormulaPassion.it

The moment of crisis continues unabated Mercedes and its most representative driver, Lewis Hamilton, author of a colorless performance in the Emilia-Romagna GP. The seven-time world champion, only 13th at the checkered flag, was unable to overtake Pierre Gasly for almost the entire duration of the race, finishing much behind his teammate George Russell: the Briton, who finished 4th at the finish, is instead he was the protagonist of a much more convincing performance than his most titled team-mate, in turn consoled by Toto Wolff immediately after the checkered flag.

The team principal, during the return lap to the pits, in fact opened a direct radio team with his driver, apologizing to him for providing him with a W13 “Undriveable”. This message, however, did not in the least convince another world champion who, with Mercedes, won the title in 2016, also defeating Hamilton: Nico Rosberg.

The 36-year-old German, who got to know Wolff himself during the years of his stay in Brackley, does not believe in the words expressed by the Austrian manager, to the point of even considering them false: “Toto played a psychological game, which is very clever of him – commented Keke’s son a Sky Sport F1 – Mercedes is taking the blame, trying to support Lewis by lifting him up and saying ‘Hey Lewis, it’s not your fault, it’s our responsibility’. This is very ingenious, because that’s not quite the truth. Let’s not forget that Russell finished 4th in that same car – he added – so Lewis definitely played a part in that unsatisfactory result. Russell managed to finish the weekend brilliantly, then there was more potential in that car compared to a 13th place “.

As early as Friday Hamilton showed some difficulty in expressing himself on acceptable levels in Qualification avoiding the humiliation of elimination in Q1 for 4 thousandths. Already in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia the seven-time world champion struggled a lot on the single lap, a fundamental one on which he has always been a caliph. An evident symptom of the poor feeling with the Mercedes W13 by the seven-time world champion.