After signing a two-year extension with Mercedes, Lewis says the plan is to keep second in the Constructors’ Championship and then “close the gap to the guy ahead”.
Bernardo Viana, a part of Massa’s legal team, says they hope that Lewis “will support” the Brazilian’s bid to retroactively be crowned the 2008 champion.
Lewis says in the past Mercedes “couldn’t wear the team shirt into the circuit” at Monza, but now they’re “just having such a warm welcome from the Italian fans”.
Toto Wolff says he doesn’t “want to be judged by a championship or two”, he wants “the team to be judged after 20 years for whether we’ve done more things right or wrong”.
Toto says Lewis lost the 2021 title because of what happened in Abu Dhabi, but also because “regulations were set in place in order to reduce the advantage that we had”.
Brundle says he liked Lewis’ comment on Max’s team-mates, adds “he was just steaming in with very firm opinion, almost putting it forward as knowledge”.