For defeat boss of silver not to blame for the improvements Ferrari car, but he is looking for reasons in his own mistakes, which have been going on since the qualifications. “I can tell you that we are all very angry together. We’ve already shaken our heads with the engineers and racers and found that we’ve gotten really wrong this weekend. It annoys us that we have wasted so many opportunities, ” he stated disappointedly after the race Toto wolff.
Wolff notes that mistakes have already been made in the qualifications that are crucial in Singapore, followed by a fatal tactical mistake with Hamilton's late stop: “We missed the opportunity to stop earlier. The effect of this probably surprised Ferrari as well. From then on, we had the opportunity to defend third place, or to take risks and try to win anyway, for which there were little chances. Nevertheless, we took a risk, ” he says Wolff, who also admitted that they deliberately slowed down the other racer for a few moments to save at least what could be saved. Without this maneuver, the world champion would fall after the stop for both his teammate and Album.
For a while, they hoped that the Ferrari racers would be stuck for a long time Stroll in Giovinazzi, but even that didn’t happen and the dream of a podium was so over for Mercedes.
