2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Baku, June 10 - 12

[xaero]

Wow, how triggered can you be just because a bloke struggled to stand up lmao. Probably just best for you guys to ignore him by now surely?

+1. They still see him as a threat to their beloved driver and hence the hate

[xaero]

I still can't believe a team principal is apologizing their driver about their car and calling that very team's car a "shitbox". He is not the only driver that has driven a slow car in the history of F1. He has a teammate, driving that same car, who no one apologizes. Extremely unprofessional from Toto, no respect at all.

lol.. Toto will visit personally to get your respect.

[Schippke]

I still can't believe a team principal is apologizing their driver about their car and calling that very team's car a "shitbox". He is not the only driver that has driven a slow car in the history of F1. He has a teammate, driving that same car, who no one apologizes. Extremely unprofessional from Toto, no respect at all.

I thought that somewhat too... the heads of Mercedes-Benz will be annoyed by that, not to mention some members of the team won't exactly be taking that lightly either.

[lh13]

Toto called his own car a shitbox? Well that's a first.

On one hand Russell is thanking everyone at the factories and then there's Toto.

[atanatizante]

Is VER truly moaning about his car behaviour or now he is showing more maturity by copying HAM's strategy to play the long game and setting up his car more towards the race? The latter would be the obvious reason and that`s why PER is now faster than him in qualy trim ...

[chrisc90]

Is VER truly moaning about his car behaviour or now he is showing more maturity by copying HAM's strategy to play the long game and setting up his car more towards the race? The latter would be the obvious reason and that`s why PER is now faster than him in qualy trim ...

I think RB have took a change this year and setting the car up for the race rather than for 1 lap. Its been mentioned/hinted at in a couple interviews now. The race isnt won on a saturday Quali. I think they know their car is much better on tyre deg so using that to help a bit with race day.

[abcdefgh]

I still can't believe a team principal is apologizing their driver about their car and calling that very team's car a "shitbox". He is not the only driver that has driven a slow car in the history of F1. He has a teammate, driving that same car, who no one apologizes. Extremely unprofessional from Toto, no respect at all.

How exactly do you know that? Perhaps they did but it was not broadcast?

[F1doc]

I thought that somewhat too... the heads of Mercedes-Benz will be annoyed by that, not to mention some members of the team won't exactly be taking that lightly either.

Toto trying to keep Hamilton's motivation up at the cost of the team and Daimler. Let's see if Toto releases a clarification statement later on.

[organic]

I still can't believe a team principal is apologizing their driver about their car and calling that very team's car a "shitbox". He is not the only driver that has driven a slow car in the history of F1. He has a teammate, driving that same car, who no one apologizes. Extremely unprofessional from Toto, no respect at all.

Hasn't it already been confirmed that Lewis' car is not "that same car" but a different specification running other experimental components? The porpoising characteristics for Russell's car were completely different to and much less severe than Hamilton's for instance

[peewon]

Crofty mentioned that some sort of ruling is in the pipeline regarding the porpoising (min. ride height maybe). If thats true its a complete farce. Mercedes have already got the floor stays rule change which benefits them massively and actually hurt teams which had to redesign the floor under the budget cap.

[Schuttelberg]

F1 has made no step I feel in terms of closing the field up. Mercedes have been replaced by RBR. Ferrari are Ferrari. Mercedes will get there.

The rest are nowhere.

[Big Tea]

I don't think the problem is proposing. Proposing is like a sine wave, these movements are like a saw wave. It is not the whole care up and down it is each end as it happens. Suspension problem to me?

[101FlyingDutchman]

I don't think the problem is proposing. Proposing is like a sine wave, these movements are like a saw wave. It is not the whole care up and down it is each end as it happens. Suspension problem to me?

For sure it’s both. Rear suspension and floor related.

[GrizzleBoy]

Karun Chandhok on sky just said he talked to team managers and confirmed that pretty much every driver except Alonso feels like something needs doing about how rough the cars are on their bodies.

[Seerix]

RIC in the interview after the race seems pretty beat up saying the bouncing is terrible and he is quite sore. I don't think he is acting