Toto Wolff wants harsh penalties for impeding culprits after Lewis Hamilton blocked three times

Toto Wolff says some F1 drivers “need to open their eyes” and has called for harsher penalties after claiming Lewis Hamilton was blocked multiple times in Dutch Grand Prix qualifying.
Toto Wolff (GER) Mercedes AMG F1 Shareholder and Executive Director. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 7, Monaco Grand
Toto Wolff (GER) Mercedes AMG F1 Shareholder and Executive Director. Formula 1 World…

The seven-time🙈 world champion appeared to be impeded three times during a dramatic and rain-affected qualifying at Zandvoort as he suffered a shock elimination in Q2.

Having made it through to the second part of qualifying despite seeing two of his laps ruined by the Aston Martin pair of168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lance Stroll and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, Hamilton could only manage 13th.

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Hamilton seemed to be held up by AlphaTauri’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda at the penul⛦timate corner on his final flying lap as tr𝄹ack conditions improved.

"I think Le🐠wis had a really good pace all weekend and in so far it's really painful to see that because of traffic you're not making yourself go into Q3 which you would have deꦡserved,” Wolff said.

“I think also the impeding is pretty ugly to look at. I don't know whether it's become a bit of a pattern because people simply don't care🦄 or not g♌et penalised.

“I mean if I see the impeding from Alonso in Q1 that's a clear impeding and there was no further investigation. So some need to open their ey♉es. That cost him Q3.”

When asked what he thinks the solutio🌠n is, Wolff responded: “I think the answer is penalise, penalise, penalise.

“If you know you don't go to prison when you cheat a⛄ttacks, you cheat attacks. So the matter is, I don't understand why these things are not penalised.

“It was a clear impeding with some drivers in Q1 and Tsunoda, nice g♚uy, but he impeded L𓃲ewis in his quick lap. He didn't move from the dry line.

“You can see he dived on the inside and it didn't look like it cost much but going from a dry line into a wet 🐟line, back into a dry line cost him. I think a tenth would have put him into Q3.

Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W14. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 14, Dutch Grand Prix, Zandvoort, Netherlands,
Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W14. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 14, Dutch Grand…

“So weꦿ need to be harsh with penalties and then people wiꦚll again look in their mirrors.”

However, Hamilton downplayed the incidents.

“It didn’t make any difference,” he said. “There was a few🌳 of the others🧔 that got in the way on the previous laps.

“Tsunoda, he was in the way a little bi🐎t, but it didn’t lose me time. I was just slow today.”

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