Toto Wolff issues stern team radio message to Lewis Hamilton at F1 Austrian Grand Prix
“Lewis, the car is bad, we know. Please𝔍 drive it,”ꦅ the Mercedes team principal said in a seemingly frustrated tone.
Hamilton finished seventh at the Red Bull Ring and was one of several drivers hit with a five-se🍬cond time penalty for exceeding track limits.
Hamilton was annoyed by his penalty, calling some of the calls “b♏ull****”.
He spoke 𝕴on the team radio to regularly insist that Sergio Perez and Lando Norris had committed similar offences.
Towards the end of the grand prix after several fraught comments, Hamilton said to his race engineer Peter♏ Bonnington: “Is there a reason why the stewards haven’t given out those penalties yet?”
Bonnington, withꦉout naming names, told Hamilton that the stewards were “st♏ill dishing out warnings and penalties”.
And that’s when W🌃olff felt the need to chip in with his tense comm⭕ent to Hamilton.
Yuki Tsunoda, Esteban Ocon, Carlos Sainz, Kevin Magnussen and Logan Sargeant𝐆 were given the🍎 same penalty as Hamilton.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decadeꦰ covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
