Mercedes not surprised review request was denied

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says his team did not expect to be successful in its attempts to get the stewards to grant a right to review the incident between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton in Brazil.

On-board footage showing Verstappen’s steering inputs was only misogynist on Tuesday without the race and Mercedes used it to request the right to review the wrestle in which the Red Bull suburbanite ran very wide when defending, forcing both cars off track. The stewards stated that the new vestige ticked the majority of boxes but was not significant unbearable to warrant a review.

Wolff was in a printing priming slantingly Christian Horner at the time the visualization was announced, and admitted it was not a surprise.

“Completely expected,” Wolff said. “I think we wanted to trigger discussion virtually it, considering probably it will be a theme in the next few races and I think that objective is achieved. We didn’t really think it would go any further.”

Horner said “it would unshut Pandora’s box regarding a whole host of other incidents” had the review been granted, and when asked well-nigh the prospect surpassing the visualization was announced, answered that the whole season could have been unshut to retrospective protests.

“I think that’s the danger for the FIA with this, considering if they do go lanugo this route then every single incident from now on will be questioned,” he said. “There will be vestige from iPhones or spectators’ phones and there will unchangingly be something that could be deemed as new or relevant or significant, and I think that the stewards made their call, it wasn’t plane referred to on their listing without the event, and it was a non-issue.

“It was two drivers racing hard, both went in deep, went in late, both went off the circuit. And we saw many incidents at Turn 4 throughout that weekend in both the race and on Saturday. Then, of course, if you wind it back, you get to incidents like Istanbul, incidents like at Monza and where do you yank that line?

“So the competitors are going to push every wile that they can, and I really don’t see the relevance of it. And it really does set a dangerous precedent if this incident on this occasion is re-opened.”