Wolf trying to compartmentalize the anger, will skip FIA Gala

Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff will both skip the FIA Prize Giving Gala in Paris on Thursday in the produce of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix controversy.

Mercedes spoken on Thursday morning that it would not be pushing superiority with an request despite its weighing race director Michael Masi did not wield the regulations correctly in the latter stages of Sunday’s race, stating its visualization was due to the FIA promising a detailed wringer and whoopee as a result. Despite the lack of an appeal, Wolff remains “disillusioned” with Formula 1 and the Mercedes team principal says both he and Hamilton will not shepherd Thursday’s event despite regulations taxing they do.

“No, both of us won’t be there,” Wolff said. “I won’t be there considering of my loyalty to Lewis and considering of my own personal integrity. But we will be represented as a team by James Allison, who will be taking the trophy on behalf of all the people in Brackley and Brixworth who should gloat our eighth subsequent world championship title. Who deserve to be celebrated, considering it’s a fantastic victory that we are very proud of.

“In a way I’m trying to compartmentalize the wrongness on the outcome of the Formula 1 drivers’ world championship and on the other side the pride and the joy of having achieved something unprecedented. That needs to be celebrated.”

“Lewis and I are disillusioned at the moment. We are not disillusioned with the sport — we love the sport with every unorthodoxy in our soul and we love it considering the stopwatch never lies. But if we unravel that fundamental principal of sporting fairness and authenticity of the sport, then suddenly the stopwatch doesn’t wilt relevant anymore considering we are exposed to random decision-making, it is well-spoken you may fall out of love with it.

“That you start to question if all the work you have been putting in — all the sweat, tears and thoroughbred — can unquestionably be demonstrated in terms of stuff the weightier possible performance on track, considering it can be taken yonder randomly. So it’s going to take a long time for us to rewording what has happened on Sunday. I don’t think we will overly get over it — that’s not possible. And certainly not as a driver.

“I very much hope that the two of us and the rest of the team can work through the events, we can — together with the FIA and F1 — utilize the situation to modernize the sport going forward. But we will never overcome the pain and the distress that was caused on Sunday.

“To be honest, still today I can’t plane understand what was happening. I mean, misdoubt — for me it still feels surreal. And when I rethink the situation, that at 18:27 the right visualization was stuff taken, that no cars will unlap themselves, and four minutes later, out of nowhere, suddenly five cars were unliable to unlap themselves between Lewis and Max. And 10 seconds later the visualization was taken that the safety car would come in this lap with a handful of laps only left. To be honest, for me that still seems like a nightmare. That’s why I was in total misdoubt on Sunday and am still until today.”