Toto Wolff watched his drivers slog their method around the Marina Bay Avenue Circuit on a sizzling and humid night in Singapore, with George Russell ending the place he began in fourth and Lewis Hamilton dropping three locations to return dwelling sixth.
Hamilton’s slide down the order was the direct results of a daring technique name to start out the seven-time world champion on the mushy compound tyre versus the mediums favoured by the remainder of the highest 10 and nearly all of the grid, and Wolff was fast to confess that his staff didn’t get that one fairly proper.
“I believe we’ve learn the race fallacious,” Wolff admitted. “We took a call based mostly on historic [data] that this race was principally a procession, Monaco-like and that the mushy tyre would give [Hamilton] a chance initially, principally the one overtaking alternative.
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“And that was a call that all of us took collectively collectively, it felt like a superb offset. However with the rear tyre deg we had, there was just one method and that was backwards. So, I believe there was a logic behind it, but it surely was opposite to what we should always have determined. However it doesn’t disguise away from the truth that when the automotive is sluggish, you’re simply sluggish.”
