Wolff jokes around with Wikipedia comment in America

By now, Toto Wolff must regret his Wikipedia statement about Max Verstappen. Not for the first time, the comment made by the Mercedes team boss has been part of a joke, but he handled it well.

Formula 1 cars have been running with the hybrid V6 engines since 2014. The US Grand Prix is the 200th race in that era and 112 races in the period were won by Mercedes. A high number. Tom Clarkson mentions some stats about the Mercedes car in the turbo-hybrid era at the press conference in America, to which Wolff asked: "Did you look at Wikipedia?"

Wolff has to laugh about it before continuing: "Yes, nobody reads that anyway, but it's good. Thank you for giving me the number 112. I think we had a really good run, thanks to the efforts that were made. Sensational power units straight from the get-go. We were very competitive from 2014 onwards."

For the US Grand Prix, Mercedes introduced a new floor which they hope to learn something for 2024. In FP1, things looked especially good for Lewis Hamilton, who finished third in the session behind Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc.