“Properly, Lewis, we’ve all identified for a few years wears his coronary heart on the sleeve,” stated Wolff. “I feel it was such a foul expertise for him [in Brazil] – that complete race weekend, and significantly the Sunday – that there’s one thing that in a approach wasn’t uncommon. Now, this time was in all probability significantly dangerous.
“I feel he and us as a workforce have been actually doing effectively at holding on to working collectively. He introduced that he’s going to Ferrari at the start of the 12 months and I’m fairly pleased with what we have now achieved to take care of the skilled relationship like we’re.
“We knew it was by no means going to be straightforward, and if the automobile is dangerous on such a day, then we have now not given him a device that’s adequate to what he ought to have.”
Wolff was then pushed for some extra background on the quotes attributed to him in Mercedes’s e book and what he meant by the “shelf-life” remark – provided that he later acknowledged it was taken out of context.
“I’ve stated it fairly often about this world significantly – it’s taking a toll on all of us,” Wolff commented. “We’re doing greater than 20 races a 12 months, we fly round. What I stated is that everyone has a shelf-life.
