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Toto Wolff clarifies Lewis Hamilton feedback after questioning his ‘cognitive sharpness’
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Toto Wolff clarifies Lewis Hamilton feedback after questioning his ‘cognitive sharpness’

By Miles Cooper November 19, 2024
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Toto Wolff clarifies Lewis Hamilton feedback after questioning his ‘cognitive sharpness’

Toto Wolff has clarified the feedback he makes in a brand new guide that seem to query Lewis Hamilton’s “cognitive sharpness” and “shelf life”, saying they’ve been taken out of context and describing the seven-time world champion as nonetheless “very sharp”.

The Mercedes F1 workforce principal informed the the creator of a brand new guide Inside Mercedes F1: Life within the Quick Lane, which adopted the workforce all through its troubled 2023 season, and for the primary a part of 2024, that he “favored” the scenario that Mercedes discovered themselves in after Hamilton dropped the bombshell information earlier this 12 months that he was becoming a member of Ferrari from 2025.

“It helps us as a result of it avoids the second the place we have to inform the game’s most iconic driver that we need to cease,” Wolff mentioned, including there was “a motive” they’d solely supplied Hamilton a one-year deal for 2024, with a one-year possibility to increase.

“We’re in a sport the place cognitive sharpness is extraordinarily essential, and I consider everybody has a shelf life,” the Austrian mentioned. “So I would like to have a look at the subsequent era. It’s the identical in soccer. Managers like Sir Alex Ferguson or Pep Guardiola. They anticipated it within the efficiency of their prime stars and introduced in junior gamers that drove the workforce for the subsequent years.”

Lewis Hamilton has three races left as a Mercedes driver

Wolff’s feedback prompted numerous tales claiming he was “completely satisfied” 39-year-old , because the seven-time world champion was .

Talking to the BBC Radio 4’s In the present day programme on Tuesday, forward of this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix – the primary race in a triple-header which can convey the curtain down on the 2024 season – Wolff mentioned he wished to make clear what he meant.

“You recognize that was taken somewhat bit out of context,” Wolff informed presenter Amol Rajan. “What I used to be referring to was that every one of us age, whether or not it’s in a automotive, on a pitch, or as a supervisor or entrepreneur. And that’s what I’m making an attempt to do with myself, perceive, ‘Am I going from nice to good?’ As a result of good shouldn’t be in Components One any extra.”

“Now opposite to my very own self-assessment, I believe we see with Lewis that he’s very a lot there when the automotive is correct. And we haven’t been capable of give him that automotive to carry out his finest, and that could be a frustration that we share equally within the workforce, and for himself.

“However he’s very sharp. He’s totally different to when he was a 20-year-old, that’s definitely clear. However his expertise and his race craft is large.”

Mercedes have signed 18-year-old Italian Kimi Antonelli, who has been managed by Wolff since his early days in karting, to race alongside George Russell subsequent 12 months.

Kimi Antonelli will replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes from next season

Hamilton had a tough race in Brazil final outing, ending tenth to Russell’s fourth, and prompting hypothesis that he may sit out the ultimate three races. However Wolff mentioned there was no query of that taking place.

“We head to Las Vegas able to sort out the ultimate three races of the season,” he mentioned within the workforce’s pre-race press launch. “We’re centered on ending this 12 months as strongly as doable and offering some extra highlights as we shut out 2024. We’re wanting ahead to the races forward, to ending our unimaginable journey with Lewis on a excessive and to constructing momentum for 2025.”

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