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Nico Rosberg has accused Toto Wolff of disrespecting Max Verstappen after the Mercedes boss claimed that only Wikipedia readers will care about the Dutchman’s latest record. Wolff was left reeling last weekend as Verstappen cruised to another simple victory at the Italian Grand Prix, a result which etched his name into the F1 history books.
The result saw Verstappen set a new record for the most successive Grand Prix victories, although Wolff was in no mood to sing his praises after the chequered flag at Monza. He instead chose to dismiss the achievement by claiming that it will serve as nothing more than extra filler for the statistics page on Wikipedia.
“Our situation was a little bit different because we had two guys fighting against each other within the team,” Wolff told Sky Sports F1. “I don’t know whether he cares about the record, it’s not something that would be important for me, any of those numbers. It’s for Wikipedia, nobody reads that anyway.”
The Mercedes boss has since been criticised by one of his former drivers in Rosberg, who accused him of lacking grace but was quick to insist that the remarks were very much out of character.
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Rosberg told the Sky Sports F1 Podcast: “I think Toto got in a moment where he was not too happy about his own race team’s performance on the weekend, because of course where they finished. Fifth and sixth, miles behind Ferrari and Red Bull, is not really the goal.
“I think Toto was just a bit down there and that made his answer a bit darker and not quite as gracious. Not quite as gracious as perhaps he would normally be, because I think the right answer would have been hats off and respect to Red Bull for their achievements.”
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Rosberg went on to directly address Wolff’s claim that only Wikipedia readers will care about Verstappen’s record, suggesting that the Mercedes boss might have thought differently if the shoe was on the other foot.
“We all care about records, of course, and we think a lot about records,” he added. “So even Max who always says ‘no, I don’t care about 10 races’, what does he do when he gets out of the car? He puts both of his hands up and points to the world that that’s 10 in a row.”
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