“Lewis Deserves Better”: Toto Wolff Sends Defeated Message to Hamilton to Follow Up With Heartening Request, Leaving Fans Sympathetic

Fortunes in Formula 1 can change overnight. Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton were buoyant these past few race weekends after the major upgrade on the W14. Hamilton himself would’ve been eyeing another podium finish at today’s Austrian Grand Prix. However, something has changed, or maybe it hasn’t. But the fact of the matter remains; the 7x champion is struggling in the race.

Hamilton has really been finding it difficult to get the maximum out of the overhauled W14. During the entire race, he’s been struggling with his brakes, the balance of the car, and track limits. But as he started to get impatient on the team radio comms, his boss, Toto Wolff decided to intervene.

Toto Wolff makes mid-race Lewis Hamilton demand

Hamilton is known to be vocal and passionate over his radio comms. And with everything that has been going on in this chaotic and drama-filled Austrian GP, Hamilton’s radio rants may have gotten a bit too much for the Mercedes boss.

Wolff is a very hands-on boss on the pit wall. And this time around he came onto Hamilton’s airwaves to calm his driver down with a very bizarre admission. Wolff was quoted as saying, “Lewis, the car is bad, we know. Please drive it!”

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This candid radio exchange between Hamilton and Wolff has sent F1 fans into a frenzy.

Fans react to bizarre Wolff-Hamilton radio moment

As soon as this radio exchange between the duo of Toto Wolff and Lewis Hamilton went viral, fans rushed to the social networking platform, Twitter to share their reactions. Let’s take a look at just a few of these fan reactions.

One fan even commented, “I’m tired of this team. Lewis deserves better.”

Fans also crucified the team.

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Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff will be hotly anticipating the next set of upgrades to be brought at the British Grand Prix next weekend. But was Wolff a bit premature and harsh to publicly slam the W14 in it’s current state based on a single-race performance?