Vowles text Wolff to apologise for Monaco tactics

MONACO -- James Vowles sent Mercedes brag Toto Wolff a substance during the Monaco Grand Prix to apologise for the tactics his Williams squad employed against Mercedes operator George Russell.

Russell grew progressively annoyed astatine Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon during the race arsenic some drove good beneath the capableness of their cars.

Sainz and Albon were driving dilatory successful effect to RB operator Liam Lawson doing the aforesaid successful bid to physique a spread for teammate Isack Hadjar, arsenic the Red Bull inferior squad looked to exploit an unforeseen loophole successful the caller two-stop mandatory regularisation for this year's Monaco race.

"I'm sorry. We had nary prime fixed what happened ahead," work the text, arsenic revealed by Wolff successful his Sunday evening property conference.

"I answered. 'we know'," Wolff added.

The Williams brace managed to people points arsenic a result.

Vowles served arsenic caput of strategy for Mercedes during its dynasty tally betwixt 2014 and 2021 earlier moving to Williams.

When asked if helium appreciated Vowles' message, helium said: "You know, James is 1 of my guys, and I don't privation to dependable patronising, due to the fact that he's making a vocation arsenic a squad principal, and he's doing truly well.

"He had to bash it, you know, he's [got] 2 cars successful the points. I deliberation what started it was these RBs that backed america backmost off, and that's what helium had to do."

Wolff said the unforeseen effect of the regularisation should beryllium looked astatine for aboriginal races and hinted that helium would enactment a regularisation astir the slowest thigh clip a operator tin implicit during the race.

"I deliberation what we tin look astatine is to make immoderate much circumstantial regulations that there's lone a maximum of back-off that you tin have.

"You know, you can't clasp up a train, overtaking present is difficult, due to the fact that you can't spell slower than X seconds from the leaders. That would astir apt make a small spot much of a person field. Does it amended the overtaking?

"I don't deliberation that's feasible. We request to speech besides with possibly [Monaco organisers] ACM here, and say, is determination thing we tin alteration connected the layout? Difficult successful a city, we're constricted by a upland and the sea. But you know, I spot the positives. This is an unbelievable spectacle."