F1, for Ferrari an unexpected defender: the words of Toto Wolff

An old rival standing up for Maranello.

Ferrari in the eye of the storm for its handling of the last GPs before Formula 1’s summer break, but there are those who have decided to have their say on the Prancing Horse’s strategies. This is Toto Wolff, team principal of Mercedes, who also expressed solidarity with the race wall for some controversial decisions involving Carlos Sainz and especially Charles Leclerc.

“When you are leading a Grand Prix with everything to lose, the weight of responsibility falls all on your shoulders,” Wolff explained, as can be read in the columns of ‘AS.’ “If you are in first place in a race, making decisions of a certain kind is difficult. Those behind, on the other hand, have everything to lose and can afford to take risks more lightly.” It is a reading that can be applied to the many Grands Prix in which Leclerc’s Ferrari was ahead of Max Verstappen at the start, but in which the Red Bull Dutchman then beat him to the finish.

“Red Bull over the course of this year has made so many right decisions in the course of the race. But it made choices that would have been more difficult for those in the lead at the time,” Wolff concluded in his defense of Ferrari.