Wolff jokes about the weather in Brazil: ‘It's nothing, Malaysia was worse'

With the intensive rain on the track, drivers only had one shot in Q3 to set a lap time. Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished in P5 and P6 respectively, and will start Sunday’s race from the third row of the grid. Toto Wolff shared his thoughts on today’s session.

"[In] Malaysia I think we had that kind of thing. That was worse," Wolff commented on the heavy rain at Interlagos to Viaplay. "You're a bit soft that was nothing," the Austrian team principal said jokingly to the TV channel’s reporter. The session was eventually red flagged.

Wolff also explained what happened in a more serious tone. "[It is] super difficult because you can see you can be first and you can be last in that group of the top 10."

He added: "You just need to get the temperature window right, and Max was just storming out, and the two Aston Martins were very early in the session and were driving fast in the out lap and they are where they are, and we were maybe holding back too much."

In terms of Sunday’s race, Wolff seems to be optimistic. "I hope we have a good race car, but we don't know, and if that's the case, we just need to look forward and storm forward as good as we can," he concluded.