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After Mercedes didn’t manage to finish the 2020 season on a high, team boss Toto Wolff was asked if he believed the W11 was the greatest F1 car in history.
Mercedes got beaten cleanly by Red Bull in the final race of the 2020 season. Not the ending the team expected or the one their 2020 car (that just got awarded Autosport’s Best Racing Car of the Year Award) deserved.
After the race Wolff was asked if he believed the W11 the best Formula 1 car in history.
“W11, we are leaving this race with a slap on the wrist, it wasn’t a good weekend for us,” said the Austrian.
“A car that has never let us down all year, maybe apart from this last weekend. Whether it will be the greatest car, I don’t know. I hope that next year’s or after next year’s car will be the greatest.”
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With Valtteri Bottas holding his P2 for the entire race, Wolff was asked if the team considered asking the Finn to let Hamilton through.
“1000 per cent no to ever swapping the car in that condition. It was painful enough that we did it a few years ago and we always want to avoid that unless it is championship critical.
“Valtteri, today, did a very good job. I think him and Lewis were looking after the tyres a lot because it wasn’t clear if the hard would last until the end.
“There was more pace for both of them, more pace in both of them and we saw in sector one our car simply wasn’t turning around five and six.
“Also, the last sector wasn’t great so no, I never thought about [swapping places],” concluded Mercedes’ team boss.
