I think Toto misses Horner.
There is nobody to play 'my BS is better than yours' games with him now.
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I appreciate the posted tweet, but could you also provide a translation next time?
Wolff just spoke about the current engine discussions: "We've taken all the assurances that everything we're doing complies with the rules. What we're talking about isn't even a massive performance boost. That's the situation, but I reckon all our rivals got a bit miffed and lobbied the FIA for a long time."
"This lobbying activity has ramped up considerably over the last few months. So secret meetings, secret letters written to the FIA—when in this sport there's no such thing as secret... That's what's brought things to this point."
"There's a governance process. If that governance votes for a change to the engine regulations, you've got to accept it. It is what it is. This would be detrimental to all the teams running Mercedes engines in such a scenario."
"The benefit this brings us is just a few horsepower."
"We'll always respect the sport's management. If the sport's management makes a decision against or in favour of our position, we've got to comply with either."
George Russell: We've had a difficult first day here in Bahrain. We had a solid three days on track in Barcelona, but we haven't hit the ground running here in the Middle East. We were experimenting with the overall balance of the car this morning, but it didn't feel as responsive as it did in Spain. That is partly to do with the higher track temperatures but there's work for us to do to get the W17 into a happier place.
Andrew Shovlin: George had an interrupted session in the morning. We had several issues that meant we were late getting out first thing; that was due to a few changes in the garage that we hadn't done before during a session and that took a bit longer than expected. On top of that, the car balance wasn't great causing challenges with brake locking, poor traction and general inconsistency.
Kimi took over after lunch and during the various changes, we discovered an issue on the suspension that required further investigation. That cost us a couple of hours and, once we had left the garage, we only had time remaining for two sets of the hardest tyre to baseline the car and work on our long running.
We're still learning how the W17 behaves and clearly have a bit of work to do to get in back in the right window. Thankfully, we've got two more days of running this week and are not short of ideas, so hopefully can take a good step forward tomorrow.
Neither McLaren nor Mercedes are underdogs going into this year. Mclaren come off two titles and with Mercedes engine which was rumored to be the best as early as mid last year. Mercedes with a new engine must have a large manufacturer and packaging advantage as well.venkyhere wrote: ↑11 Feb 2026, 22:11Toto Wolff, just like every other team principal (perhaps more so) is jumping with glee at the first opportunity to declare themselves 'underdog'.
To under-promise and then overdeliver. So that it looks like the team 'rallied to a war cry' and 'delivered when it mattered'.
It's all typical PR BS. Has been happening for decades in F1.
