'The management have absolutely no control over them now and there is nothing they can do about it.'
F1 pundit Peter Windsor says Mercedes are now powerless with Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, predicting clashes like in Qatar will reoccur and are what happens when you ditch a “Valtteri Bottas or Sergio Perez”.
However, Windsor says this is a conversation which Russell would not “even begin to listen to”, and now Mercedes find themselves in a situation where they are gathering pace with their hands off the wheel, no longer in control of their drivers. “If you’re going to have them next to one another on the grid, which they were, P2 and P3, and you’re going to put one of them, i.e. the guy in P3, on soft tyres and the other guy on mediums, because what you would then need to do, what Lewis would need to do is before the race, they would need to say to the other driver, ‘Look, Lewis is on the soft tyre, he may well try something on the outside, so whatever you do, stay on the inside, and make sure that you two do not touch one another’.
“That accident was a straight result of choosing to have a driver, an aggressive fast racer like George Russell in the other car. “I’m not saying you want a number two who’s slow,” Windsor added. “I’m just saying you need a driver who is compliant and can work with the star driver you’ve got.
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