News Details

Wolff: Radio failure led to 'colossal f*** up' for Mercedes

Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff says the German outfit's massive tyre and pitstop blunder in Sunday's Sakhir GP was caused by a radio failure in the team. Mercedes looked on course for a routine 1-2 in Bahrain, albeit with George Russel leading a sensational charge. The Black Arrows duo negotiated the first round of pit stops without any issues but a safety car on lap 59 compelled the Brackley squad to double stack its drivers for a second tyre swap. Alas a communication failure led to Russell being fitted tyres from Bottas' allocation which in turn forced the crews to refit on the Finn's car his older tyres. "It was a colossal fuck up," admitted a candid Wolff. "What happened...
Full Story »
4y ago from F1i.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Toto Wolff: "It was a colossal f*ck up"

Mercedes looked like they had the race under control until they had a...
4y ago from GPBlog.com

Wolff: Mercedes double stack was a ‘colossal...

Toto Wolff was able to succinctly describe Mercedes' Sakhir Grand Prix as...
4y ago from PlanetF1.com

Mercedes pit stop error a ‘colossal f*** up'...

Mercedes’ Team Principal Toto Wolff has described his squad’s...
4y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Mercedes F1 team under investigation for 'colossal pit...

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff admits his team made a “colossal...
4y ago from Crash.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Will Power leads Team Penske to IndyCar pole at Gateway

World Wide Technology Raceway was the site of qualifying on Saturday...
16h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

IndyCar Gateway – Qualifying Results

The first short oval race of the season is on tap this weekend, and a...
16h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Newgarden tops rain-affected IndyCar practice from...

IndyCar finally was able to complete its first practice session of the...
20h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal will look to sign Premier League striker if...

Arsenal will reportedly turn their attention towards Aston Villa striker...
29m ago from SportsKeeda.com

'If you put him in the Arsenal side, he gets over 20...

British pundit Darren Ambrose has claimed that Nottingham Forest striker...
2h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Barcelona Transfer News Roundup: Catalans face Nico...

Barcelona are preparing to upgrade their squad ahead of the 2025/26...
3h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Manchester United launch surprise move to sign former...

Manchester United have launched a move to sign former Arsenal goalkeeper...
3h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.