🚨 | Toto Wolff on potentially using team orders to help George Russell finish P2 in the championship:
“I haven't thought about the Drivers' Championship yet.”
“But clearly, we absolutely want him to score the maximum [points] and hopefully finish second.”
“We need to think about what we're going to do about it, but it could be a possibility that we're giving it all the force.”
🚨 | BREAKING!
F1 has informed Imola that it won't be required as a race venue at the end of this season.
Plan remains to race in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, and if that needs to change then the season will end in Las Vegas.
📰 @ChrisMedlandF1
🚨 | Liberty Media must decide today whether Imola will replace Qatar or Abu Dhabi.
Both races are expected to go ahead as planned.
If security concerns force their cancellation later, the F1 season could end in Las Vegas on November 21, with just 21 races.
📰 @Auto_Racer_it
🚨 | FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem plans to abolish the 75-year age limit for office holders, with a vote scheduled for next month’s General Assembly.
The proposal follows the removal of leadership term limits six months ago. Critics argue the changes could allow him to remain president for life.
📰 BBC
🚨 | Ralf Schumacher on Lewis Hamilton's position at Ferrari:
“Lewis Hamilton is taking a position within the team that he is not entitled to.”
“The problem is that he's simply not fast enough compared to Charles Leclerc.”
“If he were clearly better than his teammate, this discussion wouldn't even exist.”
🚨 | Toto Wolff takes a playful jab at Lewis Hamilton after Mercedes' title win:
“In terms of the party, I don't know yet. Now it's another flight, another overnight flight.”
“George is going to be on that overnight flight, so maybe we'll have a drink, a constructor's drink.”
“We're going to take Lewis also, so we'll see, maybe he needs one for the bed!”
🇧🇷 Toto Wolff on the comparisons between Kimi and Senna:
“Senna is a giant of the sport, and I feel that setting these standards for a 20-year-old driver is a lot of pressure, and that’s why I want to not compare him at that stage.
“He’s Kimi, Senna was Senna, but it’s sweet to see how the Senna family embraces him.”
“They say that it’s the first time that it looks like there is a second Senninha. That is the first time that you can say ‘Okay, he is a little bit like him’.”
“So, let the Senninha develop, let him become a Senna.”
🚨 | Max Verstappen on whether he still considers himself the best driver in F1:
“Always. Otherwise, I'd quit!”
“I already had that mindset in 2015, but I also knew I still had a lot to learn. I already believed I had the potential to be the best.”
“I think I've had a good season. But in Formula 1, you're also dependent on your car.”
🚨 | George Russell on the miscommunication that cost him a potential pole position in Brazil:
“I was on a really strong lap and I was asked to back off because I caught Albon, and then obviously the rain came.”
“It was very disappointing. I definitely felt pole was there for the taking.”
“They've got the weather forecast in front of them, and I don't. This is where you need that trust.”
“It was the wrong decision, but it's not my engineer's fault. We collectively made a misjudgment today.”
🚨 | Toto Wolff responds to George Russell's frustration, saying he doesn't think Russell would have taken pole anyway:
“He was 18 milliseconds up on Norris at that stage."
"I don't think it would have been enough for pole, but he drove perfectly all session and merited to be on pole.”
🚨 | Juan Pablo Montoya on Fred Vasseur's authority at Ferrari compared to Toto Wolff at Mercedes:
"Fred is the principal, but you look at Fred as someone like Bradley [Lord] at Mercedes, who’s the deputy team principal."
"From the outside, you don’t see Fred as the sole decision-maker."
