(Reuters) – Mercedes staff principal Toto Wolff in contrast Red Bull counterpart Christian Horner to a person driving the wrong way down an autobahn as each bosses braced for Formula One’s title decider in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Horner on Friday framed the battle between his Dutch driver Max Verstappen and Wolff’s seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton as pitting a ‘younger lad’ towards a “Mercedes media machine” that depicted him as ‘Mad Max’.
Wolff, an Austrian, stated he was reminded of a joke in regards to the caller who rang a radio station after an alert warned of somebody driving down the autobahn towards the site visitors.
“One? There’s a whole bunch of them,” stated the caller.
“So I feel it is the media machine or its all people who commented on the driving and was just about of the identical opinion,” stated Wolff.
Verstappen, degree on factors with Hamilton however forward 9-8 on race wins, goes into the ultimate race of the season on pole place.
There have been considerations within the build-up that the title may very well be determined by a collision between the 2 contenders, who’ve come collectively 3 times already this season.
Mercedes usually are not alone in questioning Verstappen’s aggressive method.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, enhancing by Christian Radnedge)
