{"id":14750,"date":"2024-03-11T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/max-verstappen-mercedes-would-love-to-have-dutchman-says-toto-wolff\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:14:15","slug":"max-verstappen-mercedes-would-love-to-have-dutchman-says-toto-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/max-verstappen-mercedes-would-love-to-have-dutchman-says-toto-wolff\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen: Mercedes would &#8216;love to have&#8217; Dutchman, says Toto Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Horner said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t see any reason why anybody would want to step out of this team. He has great support around him and he is doing a wonderful job with a great car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No individual is bigger than the team. We have a phenomenal car. We have one seat open for next year. I have 16 drivers desperate to be in that car. Checo (Sergio Perez) is in pole position, it is his seat to lose. We have a strong relationship with Max, he is doing a wonderful job and our focus is on track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We listen to whatever Max has to say but the team will always make the right decisions for the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolff said after the Saudi race, in which Russell and Hamilton finished sixth and ninth respectively, that the team were perplexed by their lack of performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The car was uncompetitive in high-speed corners and Wolff said: &#8220;There is something which we don&#8217;t understand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a more fundamental thing which we believe that the speed should be there. We measure the downforce but we don&#8217;t find it on the lap time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The thing is, it&#8217;s been two and a half years that we are chasing this fundamental. It&#8217;s been two years that there is something that we need to spot and that&#8217;s the thing to unlock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is not by lack of trying. We pushed so hard and we are going to give it a massive go now in the next week with more data to understand and come back to (the next race in) Melbourne stronger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are on mission on this one and I am 100% sure we are going to unlock this performance gap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/formula1\/68525704\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horner said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t see any reason why anybody would want to step out of this team. He has great support around him and he is doing a wonderful job with a great car. &#8220;No individual is bigger than the team. We have a phenomenal car. We have one seat open for next year. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14752,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions\/14752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}