La FIA a voulu nous vendre que le moteur Mercedes avait 2% de déficit sur Red Bull 😭 #F1 #BarcelonaGP

🗣️: "i had a lovely chat with george yesterday and he was saying, 'look, what it might seem to the rest of the world is that, you know, kimi's obviously the hot favourite and everyone's supporting him within the team, but actually i'm getting just as much support behind the scenes from toto.' how do you manage two drivers this way? i mean, you've got a bit of experience." toto wolff: "i always try to be super balanced. alan prost once told me at the beginning of my time in mercedes, i asked him 'what went wrong between senna and you' and he said that 'the team was never transparent, we never knew who is the love child' and i try to do the opposite. pressure when pressure is necessary, and also the odd, you know, put your finger out of your backside. [..] and on the other side, all of us put our arm around them when they need the support. and i feel that i'm happy to hear that because none of them can say we are not giving them equal treatment, equal support, equal love. and i think it's down to everyone to never make them feel that it's not going in the direction." 🗣️: "but do they require a different approach? you know, everyone responds differently to carrot and stick. do you have to handle them differently?" toto wolff: "they are different personalities and they handle things differently. and, you know, i'm generally very impressed because when you look at kimi, sunday night he wins the monaco grand prix, we go to the gala. what does he do? there's no drinking, there's no partying. next day, he's fishing with my nine-year-old all day. complete relaxation. he doesn't bother about the girlfriend, about nightclubs or beach clubs. [..] i think he's at the level at the moment. and it's about marginal gains, you know, every marginal gains. and on the other side, george is in a little bit the same situation. he has his girlfriend and they keep between themselves and... how can i say? it's just they're pushing each other so much that there is no giving up of the tiny margins."

🗣️: "i had a lovely chat with george yesterday and he was saying, 'look, what it might seem to the rest of the world is that, you know, kimi's obviously the hot favourite and everyone's supporting him within the team, but actually i'm getting just as much support behind the scenes from toto.' how do you manage two drivers this way? i mean, you've got a bit of experience." toto wolff: "i always try to be super balanced. alan prost once told me at the beginning of my time in mercedes, i asked him 'what went wrong between senna and you' and he said that 'the team was never transparent, we never knew who is the love child' and i try to do the opposite. pressure when pressure is necessary, and also the odd, you know, put your finger out of your backside. [..] and on the other side, all of us put our arm around them when they need the support. and i feel that i'm happy to hear that because none of them can say we are not giving them equal treatment, equal support, equal love. and i think it's down to everyone to never make them feel that it's not going in the direction." 🗣️: "but do they require a different approach? you know, everyone responds differently to carrot and stick. do you have to handle them differently?" toto wolff: "they are different personalities and they handle things differently. and, you know, i'm generally very impressed because when you look at kimi, sunday night he wins the monaco grand prix, we go to the gala. what does he do? there's no drinking, there's no partying. next day, he's fishing with my nine-year-old all day. complete relaxation. he doesn't bother about the girlfriend, about nightclubs or beach clubs. [..] i think he's at the level at the moment. and it's about marginal gains, you know, every marginal gains. and on the other side, george is in a little bit the same situation. he has his girlfriend and they keep between themselves and... how can i say? it's just they're pushing each other so much that there is no giving up of the tiny margins."

🚨| Toto Wolff, who said 'everyone has a shelf life', shares his thoughts on Lewis Hamilton today: "My old friend... when people doubted whether he still had the speed, I've always said if he's in the right frame of mind and the car suits him, then he is to be reckoned with. You need to count him in and that's what he did today. If there isn't a tiny mistake at the end, he is a tenth-and-a-half quicker than us" "I think it's going to play out in tyre degradation and we were quite good in the long run yesterday - but it all depends on the start. If Lewis is ahead after the start, that's going to be a tough one for everyone, so I'm really curious to see how that pans out." F1 2026 || Barcelona

Dudley: "É isso aí, bom trabalho, parceiro, pole position, ótimo trabalho" Wolff: "George, como está se sentindo?" George Russell: "Bom sentir o ritmo novamente." [@MercedesAMGPCF1]

TOTO SAID GEORGE SET UP HIS CAR THE SAME WAY IT WAS IN AUSTRALIA OMG NO ONE TOUCH IT FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON PLEASE

🚨Toto on George: 🗣️"He's been strong all weekend. He's gone back to basics, to set up the car mechanically and electronically how he wanted it, how he started the season, and in every single session he was absolutely strong. If I had had a favourite for this Pole, it would have been him."

Toilet Wolf’s classic playbook: First, pretend to be ignorant of everything and play dead. Second, turn a blind eye to his own screw-ups. Third, try to justify all the garbage he’s made.

🚨 The team is in discussions with its lawyers to see if there are any grounds for it to push the FIA to “remedy” George’s lost points in the Monaco Grand Prix amid the controversy over pitlane speed limit penalties Toto 🗣️"I think we are having some timing limitations and some other legal constraints, but definitely [it is] something we have a reason to be annoyed for. And I wish we could have had those conversations before the race on Sunday.” "Obviously, there are certain timing restraints. We wouldn’t appeal the Gasly results certainly, but we would like the FIA to look at what could be the remedies for George’s race." "We were on the phone with our lawyers to look at what can we do for George," he said "The drive-through, if it didn’t happen at the end, is the equivalent of 20 seconds’ race time. What would 20-seconds [in] race time have meant for his result?" "Do we think that we realistically have a chance of reverting the result? I don’t think so." "But we definitely have to give it a go if we see that there is a millimetre of chance to do so, and bring him back to whatever it was, P4, we’ve calculated, P3 or P4." [✍️@wearetherace]

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