Wolff expects problems for Mercedes and Red Bull with four teams
Red Bull Racing and Mercedes dominated the podium with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen in 2021. Toto Wolff expects this to be different next year, he says in an interview with Autosport.com.
The new regulations will make things more difficult for both teams in 2022. The future cars are built so that the drivers can drive closer to each other, which will make it harder for Hamilton and Verstappen to get away from the competition. According to the Mercedes team boss, this will ensure that other teams will also end up on the podium.
Although it remains to be seen which teams will be able to deal with the situation and start the season well, Wolff expressed his expectations in the interview. The Austrian thinks that Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin and Alpine have a good chance to get close to Mercedes and Red Bull. Wolff even expects that these teams can compete for the world title.
Hamilton hopes to win eighth world title
If Hamilton is to be seen in Formula 1 in 2022 he will do everything he can to win his eighth world title. Although Wolff has a lot of faith in his top driver, the team boss does not think the Briton will have an easy time of it. The new Formula 1 season will therefore bring many exciting races.
Red Bull don't need to worry --if Max is losing they can always call on Masi, to violate the rules, to gift Verstappen the advantage or the win
Isn't the whole point of any sport to test the skill level of the individual or the team players? With that in mind it will be great to see several F1 teams ( not just two - 2021 and one 2014 - 2020) duelling it out this year and truly see who deserves to be WDC and WCC.
Classic Mercedes sandbagging, normally it's Lewis but he seems unavailable.. Horner said something like ''at the first race everyone pulls down their trousers at the same time and then you see where youre dealing with'' think that applies to everything were going to see in the coming weeks in terms of announcements claims of being able to beat everyone etc. etc.
Haas has been the team to totally sacrifice 2021 to try getting as good a 2022 car as possible, but Toto doesn’t give them any credit at all. Who knows, they might be the surprise next year. It is Schumacher second season, (and he normally excels in his second year in every category that he has raced in) and if Haas have spent one whole year developing their car and manages to get the new regulation right, Haas could be a team fighting at the pointy end of the grid too
Wouldn't that be crazy and amazing if Haas could challenge for wins next year or better yet the WDC. I would lmfao but I truly hope not 1 team is dominant. At least 3 teams should be able to compete for the title. If only one team is dominant it would be real bad for F1 and It would be a step backwards. 2021 1 team finally came close to Mercedes, 2022 should be more teams. And closer cause Mercedes was getting dominant in the 2nd half again! So please let the racegods make it so at least 3 teams can fight for the title.
Well that would be great,but I have a gut feeling Merc has this years car under control and will be the team to beat again.
If it were engine regulations, I would have agreed. Aero regulations are tricky business.
You may have a perfect body, but if your heart is bad, your body will not go anywhere. The engine of car is the heart of the car, so teams with a better engine will always win. It is as simple as ABCD
Toto recognizes warning signs - first Max will demolish Hamilton for a second season in a row for the championship and Russell will mentally destroy Hamilton in the same car. Add FerrRi to the mix and the days of old Hamilton strolling to easy wins is over. Wold will dump Hamilton at the end of the season and the new line up for 2023 will be Norris and Russell.
I can see a similar situation at Mercedes next year to what happened at Ferrari in 2019 when their No 1 driver was totally dominated by a young team mate and the team very quickly realised that their rightful No 1 driver is the young driver and their old multiple WDC got disheartened and got progressively worse as the season went on until he was dropped by the team. Only difference is when Hamilton leaves, it will be for retirement as he will definitely not join any other teams.
Vettel only won when he had a car that was 2 seconds faster tab the competition and a driver no better than him beside him head the fast bits stolen if his car or never given the fast bits in the first place. Then Ricciardo came along and destroyed him. He only won races in Ferrari when they had an over fuelled Ukiah engine. When the playing field is levelled he is rubbish. Hamo is a better driver than him but will have a tough time next year.
You have unrealistic expectations bro ? We all know that Max is not in a position to demolish Lewis Hamilton, or you didn't watch the last four races of 2021? Lewis was even 11 seconds ahead of Max at Abu Dhabi despite the help Max got from Perez before the crash of Nicholas. The only reason why Mex dominate some of the 2021 season was because Lewis had covid, so he was not fully fit when he came back, plus Mercedes team made a lot of bad decisions with tyre strategy, which affected Lewis massively, just like the last race in Abu Dhabi. So tell us how will Max demolish Lewis? Or you forget that Mercedes is fast and Lewis is the greatest driver of all time? Your unrealistic expectations will only lead you to disappoints when 2022 season begins, because then you will see the reality, then with your unrealistic mind, you will start to make unrealistic accusations to Lewis and Mercedes like a lot of Max fans were doing to discredit Lewis in 2021?
Max would have won the title in Saudi if it weren't for the Baku blowout and bottas playing bumper cars, both events which he had no control over. even though Lewis was better in the last races, max was better the whole sseason I mean the stats literally prove it. Everytime Lewis lost potential points was because of his own mistake, sorry mate, max is the new man to beat
Max absolutely destroyed Lewis whahahahaha. 2nd half Mercedes was the faster car last 4 races by almost a second and still Lewis got skooled in qualifying, and couldn't event defend for 1 lap. Lewis got exposed hard!!!! Max will destroy him again and way harder even if they have equal cars next year. Not even sure if Lewis can handle Russell hahahaha. Lewis got skooled and It will get worse from here on!!! Omg I ❤ your ignorance it makes me laugh! You are only making Max WDC taste sweeter and sweeter with ur desperation
Racefan1986, I don't know what to say to your comments, because you absolutely childish, how old are you? I hope I'm not commenting with a child?
Is the race not all about competing and excitement? Otherwise why are we watching the race? So what is speculation about me saying it is going to be competitive and exciting? It is so funny how you are projecting yourself on me, because you saying Max will destroy Lewis is a big and unrealistic speculation. About the racist remarks, it is simply because of the words you use in your comments and you are not giving credit to Lewis for his achievement, but only the car. This is what Lewis haters do because he is black do all the time. But we all know that all driver deserve credit, so why are you not giving Lewis credit for his work?
You can think whatever you like about me. I truly don't care sorry You picked the wrong guy to try and insult. You do you You showed everyone the level you are willing to lower yourself to. I will not and shall never stoop to your level of personal attacks. Your name calling. And even unfounded horrible accusation of racism. It shows how amazingly weak you are in these situation, resorting to these kind of things. Shame on you sir. Your desperation and frustration really are dripping from your posts. I feel sorry for you mate I hope you will grow over it. And about you saying everyone knows it's going to be exciting and competitive season. Thats pure speculation and again apparently your opinion. I hope so too but no one can tell yet. No one knows until they hit the track not even during testing, but first qualifying session. I don't have to prove anything to you about Max go look at the data the numbers and the fact of 2021 objectively. And you will see for yourself. But I think you are too hurt for that to look at it objectively. So the proof is there but if you dont want to see it I can't make you. Biggest proof is Super Max WDC 2021 If you are going to resort to namecalling, personal attacks or accusation of racism again I will truly be done with you I will report and block you Beause it is just pathetic and really sad.
Everybody is saying it that you look ugly. Talking about opinions, actually you are the one typing base on opinion or wishes, but your options are not realistic neither brilliant at all, cause you can't even give us the fact that you base it on that Max will destroy Lewis this season. Because Max got lucky at the end of the Abu Dhabi race or should we say gifted the race so that he can win the championship? Now means in your mind that he can destroy Lewis in 2022? When smart people are talking people like you should be quiet, Go and get the facts that Max will destroy Lewis this season, so that you can prove it to us that Max will destroy Lewis, otherwise keep quiet! Because people with good mind knows that the season is going to be a competitive season.
It's your opinion Max isn't in a position to destroy Lewis isn't it? It's your view of things not based on anything but your own view. So i know exactly what an opinion is. And now you are seriously playing the race card here? Pathetic as neither race nor color has anything to do with it. Just like It's your opinion my pic is ugly. Quality is way to low to judge but okay lol. I respect your opinion. Too bad for you my appearance is something I'm more than okay with. So you really picked the wrong thing to attack me on sorry, because I know better no matter what you say lol. And I must say I rather have the girls saying im hot than you. The fact you try to make it personal tho is saying a lot about how weak and desperate you are. Big sign of weakness and a massive sign you are super insecure about yourself. As there is nothing here to get personal about. Makes me laugh really hard inside lol. Lewis is a great driver but nothing more than that . Nothing special. And got totally exposed by Max this year. Max needed 1 chance and he broke Lewis. Forcing Lewis to choke and make all kind of rookie mistakes.
My question was simple, I only asked you to define opinion, and you are typing this long text? So if anyone is blah blah blahing it is obviously you. On the other hand it only shows that you don't know what opinion mean, So let me help you explain what opinion and fact means. Opinion is someone's points of view, fact is something that have prove. But what I wrote is not opinion neither do I have to provide a prove to back my comments, because we all saw it during the race that Mercedes didn't pit Lewis when they are supposed to pit him in some races, we also saw it in Abu Dhabi. Everyone also know that Lewis got COVID. Talking about fit, do you even know what it means for a sports person to be fit and unfit? If you don't know I will tell you, It simply means getting back to the level of performance they have before, so it doesn't mean that the person is still sick. This happen in football a lot of times, if a player is not fit enough, the coach may not use the player, or may use the player for a short time, but this doesn't mean that the player is sick, the player is simply not fit enough to play. Everyone knows that Lewis was not 100 percent fit when he came back after COVID, except you of course ? The same thing happened to Valentino Rossi. Why is everyone excepting it that Rossi's absent because of the COVID had impact on his performance when he came back, but you are not expecting it that it had impact on Lewis too? You guys don't want to see a black man successful, this is why guys like you will do and say or look for anything to discredit Lewis from is glory. Shame on you Racefan1986! By the way your profile pic is really ugly!
It's your opinion that Max is not In a position. The facts say something else. It's you opinion Lewis wasn't fit. The facts is he said on multiple occasions he was fit and ready to fight. So it's all blah blah. Fact is Lewis only was able to come back the last 4 races because the Mercedes made a step and was half a second faster. Fact is Max had way more bad luck. Fact is Lewis got beaten and Max is WDC. You are grasping for straws all of a sudden claiming Lewis was unfit, excusses, excusses, excusses. Be graceful in defeat it's over now lets hope for another legendary season next year with even more teams fighting for the championship. And lets pray no one team will be dominant (not even RBR)
Your posts are based purely on opinion. No facts whatsoever. So please go and inform yourself and then come back to me.
Some of the World would still like to enjoy Hamilton in F1, please. It's bad enough how glorified beating him in F1 has become. It's annoying and some of us (feeling underrepresented) just want to see him drive around and do his best.
The only issues Mercedes will have are NONE ! They will be mild ahead plus those tokens they never even spent ! 22 will old Lucy’s 8th paper title .
