News Details

Mercedes suffer 'one of the hardest days' at Austria

Mercedes suffered a massively disappointing Sunday at Spielberg, Austria after practice and qualifying had been so promising for the Mercedes AMG F1 team. But two car failures along with a big strategical error made it a day to forget for the world champions. “It's a tremendously painful day for us, for me personally the most painful in six years,” said Wolff, after the team suffered their first double DNF since Spain 2016. “We were one and two on the grid, Lewis had a fantastic first lap and then DNF-ing twice – and obviously losing the race under the Virtual Safety Car (VSC): it doesn't get more cruel for us.” Valtteri Bottas, at the time running in second place, was out early...
Full Story »
6y ago from F1Technical.net 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Austria FP1: Hamilton heads Bottas as Red Bull chase

Lewis Hamilton made fine use of a barrage of aero and chassis tweaks on...
6y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Who can stop Hamilton and Mercedes in Austria?

The Formula 1 lead has changed hands four times in eight grands prix so...
6y ago from GrandPrix247.com

FIA approves new Mercedes W09 mirror design

class="left relative"> Share Tweet Share Share Email The FIA...
6y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Andretti slams Austria stewards for Vettel penalty

Former world champion Mario Andretti has criticised FGIA race stewards...
6y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Tech3 KTM slams ‘bitter’ Qatar MotoGP penalty...

Tech3 KTM boss Nicolas Goyon says the Qatar MotoGP round has left a...

Marc Marquez admits the one mistake he made en route...

Ducati's Marc Marquez admits his collision with brother Alex Marquez on...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

IndyCar Long Beach – Race Results

IndyCar tackled the second street course of the young season, contesting...
14h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Kyle Kirkwood masters Long Beach to take third IndyCar...

The historic streets of Long Beach, California hosted the NTT IndyCar...
14h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Outback diplomacy: Finnish ambassador braves...

o Haapea hopes to raise $30,000 for cancer research as he navigates the...
1w ago from TheGuardian.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Jude Bellingham involved in 'heated clash' with Real...

Jude Bellingham is allegedly involved in a training ground bust-up with a...
59m ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Real Madrid players send warning to Arsenal ahead of...

As they prepare for the return leg at the Santiago Bernabeu, players at...
59m ago from SportsKeeda.com

Arsenal ready to let star player join Barcelona -...

Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey is reportedly unlikely to stay at the...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Agent flies to hold talks with Chelsea as winger wants...

River Plate winger Ian Subiabre's agent, Claudio Caniggia, has reportedly...
1h 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.