While Lewis Hamilton questioned Mercedes for not informing him about teammate George Russell's one-stop strategy during the Belgian GP, team principal Toto Wolff defended the decision, asserting that pitting Hamilton twice was the 'right thing to do'.
Although George Russell crossed the finish line first, followed by Hamilton, his victory was short-lived. Shortly after the race, the 26-year-old was disqualified when the FIA determined that his W15 F1 car was underweight by 1.5 kilograms.
“You have to put your faith in the people that you work with so I put my faith in my strategist. I should be able to lean on him fully.“Did I know that I was at risk of getting one-stopped by my team-mate? They didn’t tell me that.” “So we had to cover and you can see that everybody else went on the two-stop. Logically it just wasn’t on the wasn’t on the radar.“But at the end, George made them survive which couldn’t have been anticipated because if it would have been any of the other top teams would have done it.”
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