There is no way that Mercedes F1 Team Principal Toto Wolff said this to Lewis Hamilton!!
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Let me say at the outset here forgive me Lord for I know not what I do Toto is a really really nice guy but sometimes more than often nice guys finish last than I’ve listen I’ve got to talk to it today I’ve had enough I’ve had a hard
Day and this thing’s bothering me now I’m going to go off hard scorched Earth Cameron incoming cuz I need to rant about it look Toto wolf is an absolute business mind genius levels above each and every single one like he’s he’s proper he’s a great guy he is that guy look at the
Things that he’s done with Mercedes you guys know the facts and the stats that he’s doubled no quadrupled the advertising value of Mercedes over the course of his tenure props sir but what are we doing now you guys are well aware Steve a the F1 is a
What have you done for me lately so I want to try and understand the Gap analysis between then the Glory Days of Mercedes and now why are we here and why am I so upset with what Toto wolf is talking to let’s get let’s get at it because there’s so many different
Strands there’s so many different ways at which we need to approach this let me rewind to 2021 the god tier Championship one of the best championships that I’ve ever seen in my life one Lewis Hamilton C Lis Carl Davidson Hamilton by the way to be clear versus One Max for stappen one is
Black from stevenage the UK one is white from the Netherlands you can’t even write this sort of friction the stakes were incredible once one in generation type drivers both of them are I mean how can you write that if you wrote it in a book they wouldn’t believe you they
Would say it’s a stuff of fairy tales you can’t make that up and listen on a regular I go back and watch that season cuz it was incredible it had everything that you need as far as the ingredients for a top tier upper echelon season but here’s where we need to look
At Toto Wolf the first one exhibit a because again lots of people will say that well you know what Toto Toto inherited all of this from one Ross brwn didn’t he but Mercedes isn’t the house that Toto built and I I can’t go with that I think Toto’s brought value I
Think that’s almost indisputable at this point and anybody who says it is is barking up the Fool’s go gold tree I just can’t get down with that Toto wolf is absolutely worthy of some Praises for table setting I need to put that up front right preface everything that I’m
About to say this dire tribe incoming with that give that dude his flowers absolutely worthy of credit if not just from a business perspective Mercedes F1 isn’t what it is today in 2024 Suns one Toto wolf but let’s rewind back to 2021 cuz here’s where it gets a bit techy remember eight time
Constructors at this point six time drivers courtesy of leis Hamilton one courtesy of Nico rosberg they’ve been dominating F1 good and proper they have there’s no other way to cut it but then we rewind to 2021 and here’s where it gets a bit techy because decision making
Listen a lot of people say that F1 is about people I think I I would differ ever so slightly I think F1 is about decision making sound rational minded decision making that’s how you elevate to the top and that’s how you have success ultimately endured success in F1
Cool let’s rewind back to 2021 keep that front and center of your mind yet decision making people and decision making more Ro 2021 Max for stappen and Lewis Hamilton are going at it hammering tongue it’s close it’s techy it’s one of those ones where it was of course ultimately deci
Decided even on fine margins of course it was bright magic we can talk to that we can talk about IMA we can talk about Hungary there were loads of incidents and it was so close that it was always going to be decided Oni mares Toto wolf ET made the decision together with
Elliot to get together with James Allison the what what were they going to do as far as development of that car in a season that’s so bloody close surely it Mak sense to put all your eggs in a 2021 Championship basket my old my old lady Mama Cameron she would always say
To me a bird in a hand is worth two in the bush focus on the here and now sometimes now I know the regulations were changing and if you now the 2022 car then you get endure enduring durable competitive advantage as have done Red Bull take that I get it however if in
The circumstance that you’re in a neck a neck battle if it’s fine margins with One Max for stappen in an Adrian new designed Red Bull then how about we focus on that in the real time how about we focus on getting that Championship done in 2021 you didn’t have enough
Margin in your pocket Toto Mike Elliot James Allison to go and focus on the 2022 car we were moving as if this was 2018 and we had durable competitive advantage to spare that’s not what it was this was this was fine margins now and it always going to be decided ontt
Ultimately it came down to Michael Massi Abu Dhabi we all know the the pmic that was Abu Dhabi but listen opportunity cost of cash right slide indoors if Mercedes had focused on that car in real time in 2021 who’s to say that LS wouldn’t have won fair and
Square clear before Abu Davi I don’t know listen this is all ifs buts and maybe however what I do know is that Toto wolf Mike Elliot etal James Allison made the decision to diversify their development portfolio and focus on 2022 when the correct decision particularly with the benefit of hindsight and
Hindsight is always 2020 right everybody can be a Monday morning genius and quarterback but particularly with the benefit of hindsight how do you not focus on the here and now the battle is close you don’t have any wiggle room focus on what’s in front of you Mercedes
And Toto wolf C there’s your exhibit a in my humble opinion made a massive an error of gargantuan proportions but cool we’ll CH that up to the game exhibit a didn’t focus on the 20 to one car but let’s see how they did in 2022 eh cuz they put all of their investment
Resources into that car well you know how that story ends already 2022 car was an absolute nightmare didn’t work again super narrow peaky performance curve they saw all of this performance in the wind tunnel and the cfd etal yada yada yada where was it that car only worked one of three 365
Days when it was a full moon around tracks that were at high altitude for Pete’s sake what are we doing I mean Matthew what what are we doing here come I understand anger towards Toto but he’s one he’s one that brought no Matthew you’re right and you’re very very
Generous so you are right and again that’s why I prefaced everything that I’m about to say by saying listen Toto is absolutely worthy of Praise of course he is i’ got to give him I’ve got to give him his flowers and his due drops but look as we as we mitigate as we
Navigate even the story AR I’m going to bring it forth into 2024 because lest we forget F1 is a story about what have you done for me lately here’s where this is this this rant has been triggered by this I was at work today and we were trying to justify some numbers
Ultimately the numbers were going backwards in the next financial Year my BS looked him and he goes C what are we what are we talking about how are we going to go backwards a a company is only as good as its last set of financial statements you can’t talk
About what you did three or seven years ago nobody cares your share price Bears no relevance your share price today your npv your value as a PLC Bears no relevance to what you were doing 5 years ago like it it’s so irrelevant so why we sat here talking about former glories
With Mercedes that’s why I want to look at what’s going on today in the here and now and I think think it’s worthy of some criticism 2022 comes in now peaking performance card it doesn’t work but again forgive that right because everybody makes bloody mistakes nobody bats a thousand especially not in a
Sport as complicated as techn technologically nuanced as Formula 1 call get it copy but what do they go and do after that all 22 that’s another season of Lewis Hamilton’s career written off cool okay everybody makes mistakes even Adrian knew he mp44 was a car that he built that was
Too dangerous to even drive on track everybody even the goat of Arrow the chap who did sports car air ground effect in sports cars at University even he makes mistakes cool not going to get mad at 2022 but again you learn from your mistakes don’t you but no not Mercedes what did they
They won the Brazilian Grand Prix in 22 and thought that that was reason enough to roll forward that Bloody noid pod design into 2023 what are we doing read any management book and it will tell you what you what you need to do in those circumstances is fail fast everybody
Makes a mistakes but turn it around very quickly and go right direction don’t continue to bark up the wrong design philosophy tree for Pete’s sake come on Lewis Hamilton’s career is wasting Mercedes fans around the world are looking at you just baffled this to us
Looks like common sense so if we can see how comes you can’t Toto Mike James like what are we doing here and I know it’s techy and I know I’m very firmly in rant territory again I don’t want to come and do this every time but
Sometimes as you connec in the dots you you got to speak you might just don’t understand the Mind boggles each and every single time as I try to piece together this story arc 20123 comes around and they Rock up yet again with a flipping zero pod of a car what didn’t
We learn what the levels of technical arrogance on display here to not learn from the mistakes of the previous year to even roll forward that same design philosophy into 202 like what I I just can’t you see me out here losing my mind it just doesn’t make sense Matthew make
It make sense for me how are they how were they in 2023 Still rocking up with zero pods and then all of a sudden now they realize that the first race okay so it doesn’t work what what you couldn’t realize this throughout the winter you
Had all that time to assess and try and draw the correlation between the cfd and the wind tunnel and understand that reality doesn’t play out that you’ve got this narrow very Peak performance curve and potentially you don’t want to keep barking up that design philosophy tree cuz it’s not accessible it’s for gazy
Right you could have a peaky per a curve so peaky that it goes add INF forit but if you can’t access the upper reaches of that performance C then what is the point absolutely Bonkers okay so they do that that’s your exhibit B or your Exhibit C I’m losing track at this point
Cool parlay into this now as at 20 24 Mercedes let’s let’s remember in terms of their life cycle for this set of Ru rules and regulations they’re at square one this is the car that they should have brought to 2022 right so everybody’s got 48 months on them 24
Months for the time lost by Mercedes and 24 months worth of their own growth in development so it’s no surprise that the cars rubbish but still you expect Mercedes right eight time Constructors champions seven time drivers they’ve got Lewis Hamilton and George Russell one of the best driver pairings on the grid you
Expect better from them okay so they Rock up this this time now and the car is worse than ever what’s the point Matthew the car’s worse how is the car worse I’m still shocked says Matthew that James Allison still doesn’t know the reason the power unit failed but saw
The rapid loss of Matthew I’m telling you listen I’ve had enough honestly genuinely I’m about to lose my mind full SC scorched Earth Cameron incoming and you’re right math I’m going to get to that in short order so look fast forward to this season now 2024 cool the car’s
Not great and what we be daed at this point to expect any different 48 months remember is the lead time that they’re missing as versus the rest and F1 of course is a relative game a zero sum game there can only be one winner success is gauged against your your
Protagonist right your Rivals cool 48 months behind so I’m starting to watch now and again look my critique of Toto wolf has often been that he doesn’t cut PR is important in F1 right in a world in a billion dollar sport where brand is really really critical where social
Media is becoming a thing drive drive to survive is very very important millions and millions of F1 fans love and adore Lewis Hamilton your driver and watch his every movement take the pictures of what what he’s wearing in the paddock and do you know what I mean like it’s it’s that
Serious right so the way that you move as a team principle accordingly matters I’ll never forgetting Monza and again I’m I’m skitting around here but bear with me I never forgetting Monza 2021 only a couple of races after Silverstone when one Christian herner team principal of Red Bull went on full
Onslaught right called Lewis Hamilton everything under the sun inciting all sorts for for this for the incident that happened at Silverstone all right cool now you can love or hate Christian herner for that but I don’t hate him I almost respect him for going hard for
His team I’ve always said give me one team principal to be in the in the trenches with each and each and every single time he going to be Christian Horner because that dude gets it done whatever lines he has to bend or break he’s going to do it and that’s the dude
That I want next to me in the trenches fast forward to Monza 2021 yeah so Lewis Hamilton has that accident turn one turn two Mike’s for stpp and Parks his car on Lewis’s head but for a Halo there would have been a serious injury incurred by Sir Lewis Carl Davids and
Hamilton what does Toto say can you imagine if that had been Christian herner’s driver that Lewis Hamilton had parked his his car on top of can you you just imagine what Christian horer would have said how he would have gone on his demeanor when he got in front of the
World’s press IM media full Onslaught 100% scorched Earth is what we would have got from Christian horn and that’s why I want him in the trenches next to me what did Toto wolf say well listen it’s a racing incident and we’ll uh we’ll abide by whatever the stewards
Determine what do you mean Toto like where do we get the how are we here this isn’t the time to be passive this is a championship that’s going to be decided on fine Mar margins sir so how about you get your elbows out Toto move action something so again I
Started to pay attention to Toto wolf and the way that he was comporting in front of the world’s media and I know that he’s a pioneering team principle I get that I get that he’s that guy again Sound business mind sound racing M but how is he moving before the pre the
World’s press and media what messages is he putting Thor because it matters because that matters so fast forward to 2024 sh1t car again leis Hamilton’s not pleased is he they’re trying to be optimistic still we need to keep working hard Lewis tries to do the old motivational one-on-one the guys
Back at the factory are doing so well we just need to keep pressing but as of the third race of the season the car so bad and again the promise was so good in fp2 and fp3 only for them to be disappointed by a cheeky changing wind and a little
Bit of an ambiant temperature switch everything changes the handling Dynamic screw once again with that W5 snap over steer becomes under steer in the blink of an eye how do you drive that car if you’re Lewis Hamilton and George Russell particularly if you’re a 39y year old Lewis Hamilton Le lest we
Forget in F1 that you can die in there please see eron Senna please see Roland ratsenberg please see shil vilner you can die in there okay so we haven’t had many of late shout out antoan huba but you can die in there so what motivation then has leis Hamilton
At the age of 39 bearing in mind he’ll be at scer Ferrari next year got to be risking his life in a dug of a car that could kill him snap over Ste to snap under stick what are we talking about at jeda cornes have you guys seen that
Track why would he why would he do that why would he be motivated to do that listen and I I don’t like that leis Hamilton has taken his foot after gas but bear it in mind context is key always you can die in F1 you do not play F1 so what’s the
Incentivization for Lewis to put himself in that car that dog of a W5 when everybody else has made the wrong decisions and now he has to take the downside impact of that and go and risk his life go and belt up in a car that
Could kill why is he doing that for Mak I’m starting to think that Mercedes ben C Lewis is around finite period at make I don’t think you’re right I think you want something get to that big evil do you not think herner would have gone to
Can to complain about shoot of course he would have herner doesn’t mess about he he’s not pulling any anyway look I’m getting off track I digress the third race happens and again we’re trying to have patience and Lis is trying to have patience desperately you
Can see in his in his being in his countenance desperately disappointed but he’s he’s he’s putting on his best face right until the third race and then again the promise of the w 15 looks good it looks like it’s achieved some performance right fp2 fp3 it looks good qualifying comes round
Again and they are nowhere Lewis doesn’t even make it through to Q3 Lewis Hamilton seven time Champion Singapore 2018 2007 n a rookie Champion against one Fernando elpl Alonzo two-time champion who defeated and sent packing one Michael SCH what are we talking about here like how how how is
This even a thing Le is 39 years old his time is a Wasing he’s already lost two seasons in a nauy w 13 and 14 respectively and now this a hatrick of nauy seasons of course leis Hamilton’s going to lose his mind you can see him he’s desperately trying to hold it in
But ultimately these are Champion he’s here to win 25 points every single race weekend what else is he there for what to run around in eighth and Ninth like what what are we doing here re like this is nonsense F1 baloney so ls’s mask starts to slip every time he’s in front
Of the press you see him trying to smile but he’s struggling right bit by bit that smile in terms of its diameter is becoming less and less leis Hamilton isn’t enjoying himself and ultimately at the Australian Grand Prix you get it from Lis he gives it to you I’m not
Enjoying myself here this car’s the worst that I’ve ever driven basically as near as makes no difference that’s the quote he’s add enough check out what Toto wolf had to say so here’s where I’m going to absolutely lose my mind because of this this this that Toto wolf is talking this way in
2024 with all the context in the mind with it front and center that lisis Hamilton is a seven time Champion six time in that Mercedes this is what Toto wolf had to say you know what around Lewis Hamilton I don’t even think those red overalls will suot
Him what do we go on then Toto like make this make sense all this time I’ve been begging this type of skull duggery and sledging and trash talking I’ve been begging for the past three years you to get out as Mercedes team principal front and center and do that to the person and
People that matter right those protagonists the rivals how about you get out and say that about Christian H how about you turn around your cap and get in the face of how about you say something that antagonistic about some of the people with whom you are competing Toto wolf how about that no
You’ve saved it up and we’ve got a catch up a crawl of Toto wolf antagonism but this time not aimed at Christian Herer not aimed at Frederick verer or or James Alis not oh not even James Alison bloody he’s the other one now vows not aimed at
One of the other team principles aimed at your driver sir Lewis Hamilton because he’s leaving now and going across the Ferrari are you kidding me Toto wolf make this make sense and he didn’t even stop there he didn’t stop there did he he then continued that
Lewis next year is going to have to get used to the the way our front our rear wing looks cuz that that’s all he’s going to see insinuation being next year Mercedes are going to have a good car and Ferrari are going to be nowhere what
Are we how does this even make have you been watching the races Mr Wolf have you seen that Ferrari have the best if not the best definitely the second best package on a GD so why are we even here discussing this this is nonsense this cheeky cha has now come out but the
Victim of that stance that renewed aggression from the team principal of Mercedes AMG ponus is none other than his charge sir Lewis Hamilton can you imagine the rankor Lewis Hamilton reading through these quotes like what all this time my team principal has been talking about the way that we win is
More important than the winning in the first place that Sports etiquette is a thing and we want to be very Noble and gentlemanly and now when the sledging comes out when it’s time to talk trash even I’m leis Hamilton I’m the victim of that trash door not Christian Herer not
Vows not Frederick ver not any of the other team is iMed that trash talking I’m the guy that you should have given the ambassadorial role the multi-year contract given me a check and allowed me to write my numbers after all that we’ve been through together all the Championships that we’ve won the highs
And the lows the brand that we’ve developed which will come on the brand that we’ve developed as mer meres is me that you want to start trash talking cour that makes zero sense how very Dare You Toto that’s absolutely outr I can’t even honestly I can’t Square it in my
Mind my very nuty racing mind I don’t know why Toto is all of a sudden turning heel turn heel that’s fine if you’re going to turn heel turn heel but turn heel on Christian and Max not not LS I don’t know I is the Mind Buggles really desperately non rhetorical question why
Why Toto hasn’t been like this hither to right but I feel like he’s going through it’s not it’s not a midlife crisis it’s 52 years like it’s a it’s an identity crisis is what it is I’m not sure who Toto’s trying to be honestly the Mind Buggles all that
Stuff I’m just like well if that’s the way you feel Toto and you don’t know who you are and listen here’s the here’s the reason why I say this let me get let me give you the guys this noal you’re an absolute Legend going hard today noal
Scorched Earth Cameron and there it is Camy goes after his own driver as I’ve said Lewis has been disappointed by Merc and even more toad of course the world why would he not at this point and thank you so much to while you’re far too kind
But why would he not after all that they’ve been through table setting all the Championships six for LS one for Nico eight Constructors all the highs and lows 2021 going back and forth the protest that they were going to do that didn’t turn around like all of this now
Is the time totto of all times now after bloody double dnf at Australia Wicked accident mve now is the time when you’re going to start talking smack about who about Lewis I don’t know who I honestly I don’t know who Toto wolf as it is anymore I’ll be honest with you he’s the
Love that guy how do you mean but I don’t know who he is I don’t think he knows who he is after all of this talk the modus sapari winning isn’t the most important thing how we win we wouldn’t want to win a championship with an asterisk on it that’s Toto wolf talking
So why now we what because Lewis is going across the sadaria Ferrari now it’s the time to trash talk him what this doesn’t make any any sense so I’ll close with this I’m not sure Toto wolf knows who he is on paper face value he’s the 33% owner of Mercedes F1
In conjunction with sir Jim Radcliffe and inos on paper on paper who is an eight time constructor’s Champion team principal of that team he is Mercedes and Mercedes he is him they are synonyms of of each other surely there is a symbiotic relationship in there surely but I’m not sure Toto really
Knows deep down who he is otherwise he wouldn’t be behaving this way and he wouldn’t be saying these things is Toto Wolf the pioneer of which I talk or is he Ricky jaas in the office like I I just don’t know cuz some of these comments are more aligned with a Ricky
Ofas figure though like that’s not leadership qualities like I one of my old bosses will say when somebody leaves make sure you treat them really well cuz people are already going to have their leaving day in their mind and they’re going to be thinking well if you treat Lis like
That what happens to me when I leave how are you going to treat me they’ll feel leis Hamilton’s pain vicariously through him that’s not leadership and so to close look Toto wolf is a family man you guys have seen drive to survive f a loving father loving husband he’s a proper Family Man
A brilliant business mind a billionaire at this stage probably multiple times over props I can’t hate on Toto wolf but F1 is a business where what have you done for me lately matters and what has Toto wolf done for me lately other than antagonizing is my driver and underperform periodically over the
Course of 3 years looking drive to survive there’s a brilliant episode Leaf of Faith the one that talks about Louis Hamilton ETA and you see the pictures the the the video footage of him with his with his carting son jack I think his name is and loving wife of course Susy
Wolf parlay that couple that keep that front and center of your mind when you’re hearing Toto wolf again the very latest tip bits from Toto with this because of the underperformance of recent races The Double dnf of at Australia if you’re going to call in to question whether I should be the guy
Says Toto wolf to lead Mercedes going forward as team principal then then that’s fair Toto Wolf’s words those are Toto Wolf’s words he’s taught gazillion times already about his future and I’m not sure at this point it wouldn’t be best for all concerned if he didn’t take his
Leave as successful as he’s been every Dynasty comes to its end right father time is undefeated nothing lasts forever and I don’t want to I don’t want him to further Sully’s Legacy I’m being honest here I don’t know if Toto wolf is the guy to take Mercedes through this transitional phase
And lead them back to the promised land I’ll be honest I just don’t know in fact on the contrary I don’t think he is genuinely you guys might know better than me let me know in the comments if you think Toto wolf is that guy to take
Mercedes back to the the promised land maybe he is Maybe I’m Wrong I Don’t Know But you know what for now the prosecution rest no further questions you hna
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Maybe Toto is deeply hurt and this is how he’s dealing with it.
Sorry for your pain, always great insight. I thought you were headed toward the real pink elephant in the room, but ya missed it. If Toto would have pitted in AD '21, Sir Lewis would be WC. Merc had the better car and thus would have forced RB to pit with them or overtake them in the final lap. Toto knew he blew it taking the conservative approach. ……."NO…..Michael……NO………."
I miss the responsibility of LH in recent years to help the team with feedback to develop the car! A little one sided this cry out.
who cares about black and white? l
One is white from Belgium**
2021 was the Game of Thrones of racing. A great show ruined by a nonsensical ending. As for MB, if you follow the history of F1 team dynasties, a period of great success is often followed by a down period. MB seems to have always had great engines. The new rules really emphasized aero over power units, and MB fell behind. They missed on the new formula, that is really it. The fact that they missed it by so much, compared to other teams (excluding Red Bull, who have the best racing aerodynamicist in the world), is troublesome, though. A driver is going to try to be at team where they 1) have a good chance to win, 2) have a good contract (aka $), and 3) think the can develop the team and put it a winning position. Lewis probably values #1 most. He likely isn't in it just for the money at this point and does not want to wait 5 or 10 years to be in a position to win another championship. Also, I think every driver wants to be a Ferrari driver at some point, and those drives don't come up all that often. Unless MB pulls some rabbit out of a hat in the next couple of years, it seems Lewis has made a very logical decision. I don't think it's anything with Toto or MB, it's just an opportunity that makes sense at this point of his career. I can also see Toto being upset. He likely is trying to understand why Lewis does not have faith in the team to turn it around. He seems to pride himself on being a team builder and this is quite a hit to that, as nobody wants to lose their star driver. He feels let down and is letting off stream. I think it will all settle down. If it doesn't, it will be a long season at MB. OTOH, it's looking (finally) like a good time to be a Ferrari fan again. Ferrari and Carlos, so far, has been much more cordial.
How you can spew so much utter, braindead bullsh*t and make it sound like poetry is fascinating. You are the true F1 Darth Shakespeare.
Lauda did that. He’s lost without him and it shows, The man is tearing that team apart. Everyone is running away and he doesnt show any signs of knowing how to start damage control. Good for lewis leaving before the bomb goes off!
Adrian Newey is one step ahead of everyone else even with the consistency of regulation at the moment which should have allowed all the rest to catch up!
Newey has 2 years to rock up with new cars to move forwards to th new F1 regs! It's too easy to imagine that Newey will produce a car that reaches a limit,
but that is foolish thinking, I think that Newey will have the engineering capacity of thought to move foreward further than the other teams!
Toto bei g all business with Lewis and the way he conducts his affairs. He did not take RB and FIA to court. That boggles the mind when all the evidence is there in plain sight to see how it was broken. I dunno maybe it was a business move?? Then three years on. That is what he got from Lewis in the end. A business decision to join Ferrari. so much for saying in all those happy days that you are great friends with Lewis. Tit for Tat. I'm sure Toto would understand..
Oh God, thank you 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Aren't Red Bull currently using the zero pods? Newey said he doesn't understand why Mercedes didn't solve this more effectively as he definitely acknowledges the gains and is exploiting them this season?
I'll tell you why Toto Wolff says that: Somewhere deep down I don't believe that Mercedes, given their history, suddenly can't build a car! I think they are deliberately not giving Sir Lewis Hamilton the car he needs because somewhere in the Mercedes organisation, and they are Germans, they don't want Schumacher's record to be broken. Especially not by a non-German. They would rather waste his time for about 4 – 5 years (because they know that time is of the essence for someone at the age of 39) and when he retires they will build the car for GR. But LH didn't wait for them and took his fate into his own hands by leaving the team. Now they are angry because his chances of winning another title, which means breaking Schumacher's record, are once again in the balance. It is all politics!
I love your passion Cam and will always listen to you but c'mon Merc have given LH 6 world championships. Now after a coupla bad years, he's leaving. Best thing for both parties and can't blame Toto for coming out showing how he's top dog.
Uhm didnt merc haaave to switch their focus from 21 to 22 because of the cost cap coming in? Also personally i dont think its necessarily the car as much as its the engine in all the merc powered cars. Certainly isnt working in synergy with the aero of the car like the honda engines do as you rightly pointed out with the race in jeddah.
I just have a feeling F1 powers be never wanted Sir Lewis to surpass Michael's championship record. Who in their right mind wound not contest that 2021 AD race result. Lewis in a Ferrari could prove me wrong.
Cameron you're doing a fantastic reporting. Mercedes are a big team not get the ground effect right 3 years in a row. Unbelievable!
At the end of the day Merc is paying 40mil for him to drive the car and he's not doing the job. When he announced he was leaving they should have dropped him for the season. The whole thing is a farce. I'm not a Lewis fan, but whatever respect I had for him before this season is completely gone.
This is the single best take on the situation at Mercedes I have heard yet. At first I was surprised that more F1 journalists haven’t covered this angle, but I believe it take a true Lewis Hamilton fan to see, dare I say feel, the indignities and connect the dots throughout the saga that is the last 2+ years. Bravo Cam, keep up the great work! Ferrari here we come.
Horner won the abudabi race in 21 not max
It is Sir Max Verstappen. He has also been knighted
Well… George Russel just proved this man’s point. Yes Alonso baited him in. But that car is not stable.
Spot On Toto must thank his lucky star that his leadership of Mercedes coincided with the Reign of Ham…..Which is really no coincidence. I agree with you that Toto doesn't seem to be the cat to Lead the team back to the top…..He has been making questionable calls including Pairing George with Ham. Neither doesn't deserve to be facing each other in the same team Its LH/Nico 2.0.
Absolutely nailed on analysis here. Toto is bewildered and that’s not a good leadership look. He also failed to grip the cross cockpit authority gradient between drivers and let GR away with bs “I didn’t see him” crashes on multiple occasions because he wanted to develop GR with an eye on KA. Then lost SLH. Liked Toto but sadly too many failures so has lost the locker room and fans support. Needs to step up or shift out.
Merc lost its way after Niki was no longer around.
Look bro, you sound like you need a perspective from outside your bubble:
– The Monza incident was about 50:50 between Lewis and Max. Two hard headed egoists entering a corner, and exiting together. It could just have been Lewis on top of Max
– All the drivers are risking their lives, and some of the drivers are in worse cars than Lewis. If he doesn't want to bother anymore, he should heave and not take 50M+
– "This car is the worst I've ever driven." – maybe you've been spoiled then
– Learn how to take a joke once in a while without slipping into an existential white-knight crisis
Mercedes won so much because they were spending $150M more than any other team on its engines.
Max is better than Lewis as a driver in every way.
That guy has a severe case of that lewis derangement syndrome. Thats an adult male FCOL !
Two things…
1) Lewis sent Michael packing less than how Max has sent Lewis packing. Michael came back from retirement to a team that was nowhere to build them up, like he did for Ferrari. I know he wasn't the sole person, but he was pivotal in Ferrari's success as well as a big role in Merc being the team they turned into.
2) Toto wasn't stabbed in the back by Horner or Max, like he was by Lewis. After going through contract negotiations for how long, and then only for Lewis to go Ferrari shortly after…. It's like the ink wasn't even dry yet and Lewis comes back to them and he pulls out from the 2nd year of the new contract.
I can agree that Lewis is a great driver and he achieved a lot, but I've never been a fan and the way he has gone about this last couple of contract negotiations and then the switch to Ferrari has sealed my opinion about him. Not because he went to a different team, but the when he signed part, says alot about him.
They had built an engine that was super powerful, they scaled back the engine, and they threw sand in the eyes of the competition. When the competition had found a few horsepower, Mercedes opened up the engine, that was their strength.
Cam, you don't know much about aero. There was very little that merc could do on the aeroside in '21 with the no rake-concept they had. They put performance in the car with the rocket-engine that was a bit of a cheating out the rules. Let's be fair here. They blew up and replaced Valterii 's engine left right and center halfway down the season to give Lewis a whopping big advantage in the end of the year. They sacrificed the development of the 22 car to give Lewis his last hooray and STILL they found the resources and the absolutely phenomenal idea of the zeropod that was gonna work. Stop fanboying Lewis. If he would've kept his mouth shut they would have doubled down on zeropod, but they were forced into the other concept pressured by Hamilton and then he decides to leave them after not having the best car for only theee seasons. I am fine with him leaving, it's his choice, but don't go throwing the people at merc under the bus.
Great comment and analysis as always Cameron , thank you.
99% of this vid is a waste of time
Not sure why race had to be brought up here. Hamilton is not black by the way his mother is white. Race has nothing to do with this subject. Disappointed.
..love the angle Cameron.. Blimey..!! Hamilton's energy is in the pits.. and has been the last two years.. So sad.
Mercedes put in everything they had to put into ‘21 to win both the constructors and the drivers.
The only thing that prevented them from doing so was Massi.
You can’t simultaneously say “it’s all ifs and buts” but then say “well if they had developed the ‘21 car more” because it’s irrelevant.
Every dollar they put into that car and every minute of development they put gave Hamilton that title and they needn’t have put any more.
If you’re argument boils down to “they should have put in more money so LH had a greater margin” then you’re taking away from Hamilton’s capabilities because he proved that he didn’t need for Mercedes to put all of their eggs in one basket because he won. He won. Repeat after me: he won.
Mercedes played that season perfectly because he won. And the only thing that could stop them was exactly what Massi did.
I always like to believe I have command of the english language. Cameron not only has command, but is an elite communicator as well. Love F1, but I would be a fan of Cameron no matter the subject.
“Technical arrogance”.. Epic rant Cameron.. Lewis is the most astute of drivers. Toto sounds like he’s got this all wrong… Desperate times at Mercedes
Snap oversteer is terrifying, and I'd bet it would make even Fernando El Plan Alonso's heart skip a beat. Maybe.