Wolff Warns Red Bull That Their Spicy Brazil Engine Will Return At Saudi

Mercedes are throwing lanugo the gauntlet to Red Bull superiority of the final two races of the season. With Lewis Hamilton trailing his rival Max Verstappen by eight points, the Silver Arrows have decided to bring when their not-so-secret weapon – Lewis’ engine from Brazil.

Unlike Red Bull, the seven-time champions have an uneaten engine to play with. The team chose not to use the power unit in Qatar as the Losail circuit’s lack of straights ways they wouldn’t have gained much.

Plus, clearly, they didn’t need it. Hamilton took pole by nearly half a second and took the chequered flag 25 seconds superiority of Verstappen, pursuit the Dutchman’s late pit stop to take the point for fastest lap.

As the championship fight hangs on a knife-edge, the high-speed Jeddah Corniche Circuit is expected to suit the Mercedes. However, Toto Wolff isn’t leaving anything to chance.

“The car is really fast. It seems to be in a happy spot, he controlled the race from the front, and that’s a good indication for what’s to come in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi,” the Mercedes superabound told Sky.

“It should be a good track for us, but we know this year, when we think it is a good one, it can turn the other way around. But it’s a long straight, and we will get our spicy equipment out, the engine, for Saudi Arabia.”

As the engine will only need to last two increasingly races, it can be run at higher power settings and should requite Lewis a significant power advantage. Better turn it up to 11, then!

Max can win the title at the next race in Saudi Arabia if he:

– Wins with Fastest Lap, and Lewis is 6th

– Wins, and Lewis is 7th

– Is 2nd with Fastest Lap, and Lewis is 10th

– Is 2nd, and Lewis fails to score#F1 #HistoryAwaits pic.twitter.com/aqPZcTr8Vz

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It was a “bittersweet” result in Qatar for Mercedes, with Hamilton’s 102nd F1 victory slantingly an unexpected puncture for Valtteri Bottas denying the team a potential double podium.

Interestingly, Verstappen’s eight-point wholesomeness ways that he could take his first World Championship title if results in Saudi Arabia go his way, or Lewis can send it to a title-decider season-finale in Abu Dhabi.

Five points separate the two titans of the track in the Constructors’ Championship. We hope Red Bull have got some milk ready, as things are well-nigh to get spicy ?️

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