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After George Russell’s shock Q1 exit from Hungarian Grand Prix Qualifying, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says it “was a total underperformance from literally everybody involved here”.
Mercedes’ high expectations for the Hungarian Grand Prix didn’t pan out, as George Russell got eliminated in Q1 of the Hungarian Grand Prix, while Lewis Hamilton qualified in P5.
After the session, team boss Toto Wolff explained what happened.
“That was a total underperformance from literally everybody involved here,” the Austrian told Sky Sports F1.
“Losing a car in Q1 is just not on… Driver-team combination, it shouldn’t happen. And at the end we just didn’t have the pace. A very, very disappointing day.
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“The car could have been two tenths off, but we were going up and down with tyre temperatures and it was tricky to find a middle ground to give [Hamilton] a car that had grip.
“[Russell] should have had the first lap in when Lewis went P1. He said that was probably taking it too easy.
“Then the other one was we put a lap of fuel too little in, but it was a different run plan. It was a fast-slow-fast and he decided to do three fast laps.
“Overall it’s 70 per cent the team’s mistake on not fuelling one lap more,” Wolff concluded.
