News Details

Wolff admits Mercedes's stopwatch failed for Rosberg's penalty

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has admitted that in today's German Grand Prix the team waited eight seconds before servicing Nico Rosberg's car rather than five required to serve his in-race penalty, as the team's stopwatch broke. Rosberg passed Max Verstappen's Red Bull at the hairpin on lap 28 of today's Hockenheim race, but later had to take a five-second penalty for 'forcing another car off the track' in the manouvere, to be served at his next pit stop. But observers noticed that the team waited over eight seconds before servicing the Mercedes, something Wolff said was simply down to their stopwatch breaking. 'Even in a Formula One team with all the...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Jenson’s ‘unfair’ penalty – ‘that’s a...

Jenson Button speaks out over the apparent unfair race penalty he...
8y ago from F1.co.uk

Mercedes: No extra pressure on drivers to avoid first...

Toto Wolff says that Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton won’t come under...
8y ago from Motorsport.com

Hamilton says race start was 'everything' at Hungarian...

Lewis Hamilton has stressed the importance of his race start at the...
8y ago from GrandPrixTimes.com

Hulkenberg handed grid penalty for tyre error

Nico Hulkenberg will lose one place on the starting grid of the German...
8y ago from Motorsport.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

IndyCar Road America – Race Results

Road America was the scene of this weekend’s IndyCar event, and high...

Ferrucci survives early race ‘mayhem’ to earn...

Santino Ferrucci finished third in Sunday’s race from Road America,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Rallies around the world: The ones not to miss – and...

Rallying is unlike any other motorsport. It doesn’t unfold on pristine...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal receive boost in Rodrygo chase as sources...

Arsenal remain firmly interested in signing Real Madrid forward Rodrygo...
6h ago from FreshArsenal.com

Arsenal end talks to sign £70 million-rated star...

Arsenal have reportedly decided to end talks with Benjamin Sesko. The...
6h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Bayern Munich set sights on ‘incredible' Arsenal...

Bayern Munich have reportedly set their sights on Arsenal’s Gabriel...
10h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Surprise Premier League club eyeing up move for...

Brighton & Hove Albion have set their sights on Liverpool's Harvey Elliot...
10h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.