Wolff admits Qatar ‘not such a good day in the office’ as Mercedes go backwards in Grand Prix

Russell recovered to complete fourth – helped by some late chaos, which included retirements and punctures for a few of his rivals. Hamilton was a kind of drivers to choose up a puncture, on an eventful evening the place he was additionally penalised for a false begin and for dashing within the pit lane.

The seven-time world champion sounded emotional over the radio as he continued to battle through the Grand Prix, in an identical vein to a few of his radio messages in Brazil – the place he appeared to suggest he was prepared to go away the staff behind.

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However Wolff supplied an evidence for Hamilton’s struggles and why he is perhaps discovering life within the cockpit of the W15 harder than Russell.

“It got here to a degree the place it nearly didn’t make any sense to proceed. However in the event you park the automobile, you carry [the penalty] into Abu Dhabi, that’s why we needed to take it,” Wolff defined.

“I believe considered one of [Hamilton’s] strengths is the way in which he’s in a position to break late and assault the nook and that automobile can’t take it… it’s clear if you end up very robust on the brake, you want a automobile that may be very robust on delivering and also you simply hit the throttle, you wants a number of traction and when the automobile is just not supplying you with any of that, it is extremely tough to drive round.

“He wears his coronary heart on his sleeve, you specific your feelings and that’s completely allowed, that’s okay.”