Toto Wolff issues stern team radio message to Lewis Hamilton at F1 Austrian Grand Prix
“Lewis, the car is bad, we know. Please drive i﷽t,” 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-second time penalty for exceeding track limits.
Hamilton was annoyed by his penalty, calling some of the ౠcalls “bull****”.
He spoke on the te🧸am radio to regularly insist that Sergio Perez and Lando Norris had committed similar offences.
Towards the end of the gran🌳d 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, without nam꧋ing names, told Hami🐈lton that the stewards were “still dishing out warnings and penalties”.
And that’s when Wolff felt the need to ch♐ip in with his tense comment to Hami𒉰lton.
Yuki Tsunoda, Esteban Ocon, Carlos Sainz, Kevin Magnussen and Logan Sargeant were given the same penalty as Hami🌌lton.
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