'Pitiful' - Mercedes Team Principal Wolff slams rivals in car bouncing row ahead of Canadian Grand Prix

Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff has labelled rivals 'pitiful' in row over bouncing cars. In a meeting with other team principals on Saturday at the Canadian Grand Prix, Wolff clashed with Red Bull's Christian Horner and Ferrari's Mattia Binotto. Ad/> The trio are at odds over a controversial FIA intervention following the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as Horner believes it is wrong to penalise teams that have managed to control both porpoising and bouncing.

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Verstappen impresses to take pole position in Canadian Grand Prix qualifying 'Never felt so good' — Hamilton celebrates P4 in Montreal «This is a sport where you're trying to keep a competitive advantage or gain it but this situation has gone too far,» Wolff said. «All drivers — at least one in every team — have said they were in pain after Baku, that they have difficulty keeping the car on track or blurred vision. »And team principals trying to manipulate what is being said in order to keep their competitive advantage and trying to play political games when the FIA tries to come up with a quick solution to at least put the cars in a better position is disingenuous and that's what I said.