News Details

Hamilton advantage helped by 'turned down' Ferrari

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff moved to play down Lewis Hamilton's dominant Friday at the Japanese Grand Prix, warning that Ferrari did not show their hand at Suzuka. Hamilton finished almost a second quicker than title rival Sebastian Vettel in each practice session. Hamilton ended the day with a best time of one minute 28.217 seconds, 0.833 seconds ahead of Vettel – who was third – with Valtteri Bottas still four tenths adrift of the standing leader. Mercedes have won all four Suzuka races in the V6 Hybrid era, with Hamilton responsible for three of those wins, but Wolff is not resting on his laurels. "They are turned down a bit," Wolff told Sky Sports. "We...
Full Story »
5y ago from GPFans.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

'Still Work to do' for Mercedes in Sochi –...

Valtteri Bottas commended his Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport team...

Sochi FP2: Hamilton and Mercedes show their hand

Formula 1 World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton headed a Mercedes...
5y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Vettel quickest but Hamilton ominous on Soft tyres...

Russian Grand Prix – Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was quickest in the...
5y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Sebastian Vettel accepts Ferrari 'quite far away'...

Sebastian Vettel conceded that Ferrari was “quite far away”...
5y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Fernandez to ride 2024 Aprilia MotoGP bike from Jerez...

Trackhouse Aprilia rider Raul Fernandez will ride the 2024 spec bike when...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

McLaughlin disputes IndyCar's claim that rules...

Scott McLaughlin was one of the two Team Penske IndyCar drivers that were...
10h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

O’Ward retroactively given St. Pete win after Team...

The NTT IndyCar Series announced on Wednesday that all three Team Penske...
21h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Spurs v Arsenal has extra edge but derby mentality may...

el Arteta’s side are chasing the title but Ange Postecoglou wants a...
43m ago from TheGuardian.com

Arsenal injury news vs. Tottenham Hotspur - Jurrien...

Sports Mole rounds up all of Arsenal's latest injury and suspension news...
2h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

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.