Hamilton is still the world’s greatest driver, to Toto Wolff said.
Despite failing to win a Grand Prix in 2023, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton placed third in the drivers’ championship. Not a location that thrills the driver, as winning an eighth world championship is his ultimate objective. Toto Wolff is sure it will materialize.
In recent weeks, Lewis Hamilton’s season fissled out. Even in Abu Dhabi last weekend, the seven-time champion never for a moment managed to compete for the podium spots. “From Lewis’ perspective, he had a bad weekend,” Wolff told the media – including GPblog. “That is a fact. I think that doesn’t do anything on him being the greatest driver in the world, and if we are able to give him a car, then he will be fighting for a world championship. I have no doubt.”
Wolff understands poor results Mercedes
Wolff claims to be aware that Hamilton was not able to work miracles with the W14.
“It’s clear that when you have a Formula One car like we have now, you’re never at ease with it, and you have good weekends and bad weekends, but at the end, every time when we’ve seen that Lewis has somebody in his target in front of him, and it was about winning the race, then the real Lewis comes alive, and I think we just need to give him a car.”
Furthermore, Wolff acknowledges that no team can consistently be the best in the league. He’s talking about a board that hangs in the Mercedes facility. It features spaces for where his team finishes and extends up to 2050. In ten or twenty years, Wolff believes there will still be some pride in the current era: “Second, first, first, first, first, first, first, first, third, second.” And you kind of say that was okay when you look at it that way. From a micro perspective, there is currently only one person who has won 19 races, which is obviously insufficient.”
