News Details

Wolff explains 'robust' call on Bottas' tyre choice

When Valtteri Bottas pitted on lap 41 of the Portuguese Grand Prix, the Finn, on hearing that teammate Lewis Hamilton had switched to hards when he pitted a lap earlier, called for softs to be fitted for the remaining 25 laps of the race. Around 9s down on the world champion, Bottas obviously thought he could close the gap better on the red-banded rubber. However, his request was denied, and like Hamilton he returned to action on hards, eventually finishing 25.5s behind the winner. 'We have done it on occasions, but it's always a tricky situation,' admitted team boss, Toto Wolff at race end, when asked why the team didn't put its two drivers on a split strategy as Bottas wanted. 'If you...
Full Story »
5y ago from Pitpass.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Red Bull on a different strategy than Mercedes, will...

Max Verstappen drove remarkably few laps on the softest tyre during the...
5y ago from GPBlog.com

Hamilton clinches pole position for the Portuguese...

Lewis Hamilton has qualified on pole for Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix...
5y ago from GPBlog.com

Hamilton explains Q3 tyre strategy

While Lewis Hamilton and teammate, Valtteri Bottas set their best Q2...
5y ago from Pitpass.com

Wolff: 'Verstappen now has different strategy options...

As usual Mercedes was able to regain pole position. For the Grand Prix of...
5y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

PREMA confirmed to miss opening IndyCar round

PREMA will not be present for this weekend’s season-opening round of...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

'I would like to see a change' - Former Manchester...

Former Manchester City and Arsenal star Bacary Sagna has claimed that he...
9h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Paul Merson predicts Arsenal vs Chelsea and other...

Another week rolls on in the Premier League and we've also got Friday...
8h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Will the visit to Dr. Tottenham be a title race...

League titles and big trophies are largely won by tangible elements....
9h ago from Arseblog.com

“I fancy Chelsea”, “ They will do something daft...

Manchester United legend Paul Scholes and Roy Keane have made interesting...
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.