Toto Wolff feels the way in which two Mercedes sta💛ff members were publicly specified by the FIA as triggering the scrutiny into Ferrari’s energy recovery system was “disturbing”, agreeing that the team was “thrown under the bus”.

The FIA confirmed on Friday it had ended an investigation into Ferrari’s ERS usage following concerns raised in Baku last month, having gathered d🐻ata by fitting a new piece of hardware during Thursday’s practice sessions.

Race director Charlie Whiting confirmed the FIA wasཧ “satisfied” with its findin🐼gs, but said the🐽 matter had been “exacerbated by unsubstantiated allegations” originating from two Ferrari staff members who now w🍨ork at Mercedes.

Whiting referred to “a Ferrari engine man now at Merc🔯edes”, Lorenzo Sassi,✅ and directly named former Ferrari technical director James Allison as having brought the matter to his attention ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Asked if he felt slights “thrown under the b꧟us” by the FIA’s naming of the figu💫res involved, Wolff said: “Yes.”

“One oꦑf my roles is to protect my people, and if certain individuals are named in the wrong coꦗntext, that is disturbing,” he added.

“Various teams questio♉n the F⛄IA every single day. I think it’s just important to not put someone out there and say: ‘This person has questioned a legality problem’.

🥀“If you say a team🅷 has done it, that’s perfectly fine, that’s modus operandi. But picking out individuals, I don't think is the right thing to do.”

Wolff confirmed he had al🅘ready spoken to the FIA about the comments made, but said Mercedes had accepted the governing body’s findings following its scrutiny of Ferrari.

“The FIA has ma🎉de a public statement about the situation, and as they are the governing body they are perfectly entitled to🐷 do so,” Wolff said.

“No judgement has been made onꦦ anything. No protest has been launched, no enquiry has been done. Just the press statement from the FIA and we trust them.

♚“If they have looked at things, that’s perfectly fine.”