Team principals

Sao Paulo Grand Prix: Toto Wolff has opened up about relations between Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton after the Briton’s challenging Sao Paulo Grand Prix weekend and admitted that the team might have failed the driver.

Hamilton endured a particularly painful event at Interlagos, where he failed to score a point in the Sprint, got knocked out of Q1 in the main qualifying session, and finished 10th in the Grand Prix – admitting to initially feeling like “I didn’t really want to come back”, said a report on the official website.

Meanwhile, the publication of a book charting life at Mercedes over the past year has gained plenty of media coverage, particularly a quote from Wolff stating that “everyone has a shelf-life” as Hamilton gets set to swap his long-time employers for Ferrari.