Team principal Toto Wolff apologises to Lewis Hamilton for Mercedes car: 'Not good enough for a world champion'

Toto Wolff apologised to Lewis Hamilton for an ‘undrivable’ Mercedes and admitted the team ‘are not good enough’ for the former world champion. Hamilton has seven world titles and came agonisingly close to an eighth at the season finale last season, but at the start of this campaign the performances have been so disastrous that Hamilton has already publicly given up on challenging for the title.

Ad/> While teammate George Russell did well enough to take fourth place at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on Sunday, Hamilton was left stuck in 14th for almost all of the race, was involved a small collision in the pits with Esteban Ocon, and also suffered an undercut from two drivers. Emilia-Romagna Grand PrixVerstappen's dominance puts pressure on Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes in Miami20 MINUTES AGO Immediately after the end of the race, team principal Wolff contacted Hamilton over the team radio and said: «Sorry for what you have had to drive today, I know this is undrivable and not what we deserve to score the result.

We move from there, but this was a terrible race.» Hamilton replied: «No worries, Toto. Let's keep working hard.» Verstappen leads Red Bull one-two as Leclerc suffers huge late setback Verstappen celebrates one-two: We deserved it 'My start was just terrible' — Verstappen hoping to avoid second Grand Prix start mishap Speaking to Sky Sports later, Wolff stated: «George really drove well considering the car he had underneath.

»He had a car that was setup for the wet, and not for dry and he handled it… a really, really good drive.” Turning to Hamilton, he placed no blame on his driver and discussed the problems they faced and what they would do in an attempt to resolve the car’s struggles. «Yeah, really bad,” he