Toto Wolff reveals ‘no doubt’ stance on McLaren amid tyre accusations

Toto Wolff aims dig at Red Bull as he wades in on McLaren's superꦰior F1 tyre management.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff

Toto Wolff says he has “no doubt” that McLaren are operating within F1’s rules despite ൩suspicions arising about their superior tyre management.

Strong tyre management has been a h🌌allmark of McLaren’s 2025 challenger amid their dominant start to the season which has seen the team win five of the opening six rounds and lead both world championships by a comfortable margin.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri headed teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris for another convincing McLaren 1-2 at the Miami Grand Prix, with Mercedes’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell finishing 3♕7.644 seconds adrift in a distant third.

There have been suggestions from Red Bull that McLaren are bending the rules with how they are keeping their tyres cool and subsequently limiting 🌊degradation over a grand prix distance.

"I think that the team around Zak [Brown], Andrea [Stella], Rob Marshall... these🎃 are good people with integrity," Wolff told media ꦿincluding after Sunday’s race.

"If in🐬 the past, [we] often say: 'Well, let's look at whether there's something borderline', but I have no doubt that these guys [McLaren] stay within the rules.

"It's just really good development [with] that car. They've understood how to manage the tyre much better than everybody else and,🙈 in my opinion, it's totally legit.”

Oscar Piastri
Oscar Piastri

Toto Wolff jabs at Christian Horner as McLaren respond

Wolff appeared to take aim at Red Bull counterpart Christian Horner by𒀰 su♔ggesting it is wrong to throw around accusations simply because a rival team is doing a better job.

"Also, from a team management point of view, we should never...♋ when somebody is doing a better job than you, we should not look at that and say: 'They're cheating', because that's not the right attitude anyway," he added.

"So we just need to b💟ecome better and eventually not [lose] 30 or 35 seconds over 57 laps.”

McLaren’s Zak Brown, who has labelled his drinks bottle ‘tire water’, hit back at what he described as being “🐭bogus” allegations from Red Bull.

"[The water bottle] was poking fun at a serious issue, which is teams have historically made allegations of other teams.💮 Most recently, one team focuses on that strategy more than others," he explained.

"There's a proper way to protest a team at the end of the race, and you have to make itಞ formal, disclose where it comes from, put some money down.

"I think that 🐬process should be extended to all allegations to stop the frivolous allegations which are intended only to🌃 be a distraction.

"So if you had to put up some money and put on paper and not backchannel what your allegations are, I think that would be a way to clean up the bogus allegations that h𒁃🎶appened in this sport, which are not very sporting.

"And if someone does believe there's a technical issue, by all means you're entitled to it. Put it on pa♐per, put your money down.

"It should come against your cost cap if it turns out you're wrong, and I think that will significantly st﷽op the bogus allegations that come from𓃲 some teams in the sport."

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