Toto Wolff on winning in Abu Dhabi: “Nothing is going to bring that championship back”

Lewis Hamilto🍰n lost the 2021 world championship to Max Ver🍎stappen in controversial circumstances after former race 🅷director Michael Masi failed to follow the FI✨A’s sporting regulations at the end of the race.
Mercedes are without a victory so far this season𝕴, while Red Bull have taken 12 wins in 16 races.
Vers🐻tappen is on course to take his second title and could do so at the Singapore Grand Prix at the start of October.

Speaking to the media 🌺after the F1 Italian Grand Prix, Wolff was asked if winning at the Yas Marina Circuit in November would be “poetic justice” after Hami☂lton was robbed of the victory last year.
“Would it be justice? I think nothing is going to bring that c📖hampionship back ꧟so wherever," he said.
Mercedes h🔯ave performed best at high downforce, 🥃low-speed venues such as the Hungaroring and Zandvoort.
Singapore has similar characteristics to the aforementioned two circuits but its track surface is൲ notorious🔴ly bumpy meaning porpoising could occur - something that plagued Mercedes in the early part of the year.
“I think the track layout should suit our car, the bumps not,” Wolff added. “So I hope on the simulati🧜ons again say it should be one of our better tracks but I am trying to stay on the careful side with any predictions for Singapore.”
If Mercedes don’t win a race this year, it💯 will be the first time since 2011 that they’ve failed to do so across an entire campaign.

Wolꦐff remains hopeful they can despite a di✤sappointing Italian Grand Prix in terms of outright performance.
“I t🀅hink it would be awesome if we could win a race on merit without any grid penalties and I think if you would have asked us after Spa it would be impossible but after Zandvoort, we nearly won that one, and here, it was not that good,” Wolff explained.
“I think that must be the target. We don’t want to end the season with no race wins, even if the sails are absolutely set for 2023. It would be quite a nice 💦thing in a difficu♊lt season for all our people.”

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