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Wolff admits Hamilton saved the day for Mercedes

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has admitted that the team's victory in the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix was mainly down to Lewis Hamilton. Wolff acknowledged that the decision to switch Hamilton and his team mate Valtteri Bottas to medium compound tyres during an early pit stop on lap 10 behind the safety car had been a tactical mistake by the squad. "We knew that the tyre choice was the wrong one," Wolff told Sky Sports F1 after the race. "In hindsight we should have taken the hard. Desperate Hamilton hangs on for Monaco GP win over Vettel "But things like this we rarely make strategic mistakes, or rarely make mistakes like this," he pointed out. "At the end,...
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