NO BLAME GAME
“This team has won three world
championships and I will not point
the finger at a single person,” the
Austrian told reporters.
The team said in a column on
their website on Monday that “things
will always go wrong, it’s the culture
of fixing them that matters.
“The process of doing that will
begin back in Brackley. We will
analyse the headrest design to see
what improvements can be made —
and our procedures to ensure they
are robust enough in future.
“Calmly, working with facts rather
than conjecture, we will put the finger
in the wound… we will draw the right
conclusions and improve.”
Mercedes recognised that the
controversy thrown up by the clash
between Vettel and Hamilton, which
made headlines around the world
and was the major talking point of
the morning after, was good box
office.
The team added, however, that
the weekend had also shown that
the engineers were getting to grips
with a car described as a ‘diva’ by
Wolff after a bad Monaco weekend.
“During the time when
yesterday’s grand prix was still about
deliberately driving around things,
rather than into them, the W08 (car)
did a pretty handy job of it in the
hands of both Valtteri (Bottas) and
Lewis,” the column added.