“I’m always a little bit pessimistic because I think I need to be. We’re just lacking six or seven tenths to the leaders.' FrenchGP 🇫🇷 F1
“We struggled to bring the tyres in the optimum window and in qualifying, sometimes we have it in the second or third push lap and obviously you’re missing the peak then from the first flying lap,” Wolff said.
“Then in the race you can see that we’re losing three seconds at the beginning of the race or four and then we’re stabilising, we’re actually not so bad. “So there’s a lot of head scratching going on. But we have the most capable people, the best ones I believe, and at the moment [it] is a little bit trial and error. But that’s great to see that science can also improvise and we [have] got to move fast.”
Wolff was more vocal this race than usual after twice speaking to Russell, who was frustrated that Perez had not been forced to give him the position back after the Brit claimed he had the lead when the two made contact and the Mexican used the escape road to stay ahead and in the race. The Austrian was praised by his former driver Rosberg who said he did some “awesome psychology” to which Wolff reminded him it was a tactic he had used before.“I think as a driver, you’re getting so upset with the situation. You feel that what has happened was just not right. I think sometimes you also don’t see the kind of helicopter view and I felt he had pace at the time and could catch him on track and so I wanted to reset him mentally.
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