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Toto Wolff’s wife, Venturi Formula E team principal Susie Wolff issues a statement says what happened to Lewis Hamilton in Abu Dhabi leaves her with “a sick feeling”.
The deadline for Mercedes to lodge a formal appeal over what happened at the end of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will expire today.
The team has been silent since the end of the race, and now for the first time, a person affiliated with the team, wife of team principal Toto Wolff, gives her statement on the whole ordeal.
“Going in to this final race weekend, I believed both teams and both drivers deserved to win,” Susie Wolff wrote.
“It was going to be a spectacle, an historic race that we all hoped would end without controversy. That wasn’t to be.
“What happened is still hard to comprehend and leaves me with a sick feeling. Not the losing – and not Max or RedBull – they are deserving winners and we always knew it was a strong possibility we may not win – but the way in which Lewis was robbed has left me in utter disbelief.
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“The decision of one person within the governing body, who applied a rule in a way which has never been done before in F1, singlehandedly decided the F1 Driver World Championship. Rules are rules, they can’t be changed on a whim by one individual at the end of a race.
“Lewis Hamilton, you have shown incredible integrity and dignity in the face of injustice. You are the greatest there has ever been. The outcome of the last laps on Sunday? Those who know, they know, even those who can’t quite bring themselves to admit it.
“Congratulations Max and congratulations to each and every member of Mercedes AMG F1 on your record breaking eighth constructors title – I hope by March of next year there is a governing body with sporting integrity and fairness at its core so I can fall back in love with F1,” concluded Wolff.
