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Mercedes’ Toto Wolff and Red Bull Racing’s Christian Horner doesn’t want to elaborate on the Ferrari team order situation in 2019 F1 season, citing each to own philosophy.
The four races in 2019 F1 season so far has seen unique situations for Ferrari, where their radio messages have been highlighted to suggest team orders in play. Looking deep into the calls would suggest calls made according to the situation.
Since both Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc have found themselves together mostly on track, the team have been forced to talk it out on the radio. At the same time, Mercedes hasn’t seen major talking point, as does Red Bull so far in 2019.
Both their team principals have been in a situation like this, especially for Wolff, who had to handle Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. “From my standpoint, we’ve been quoted a lot about the Ferrari situation and I don’t think it’s right,” he said.
“We are not in the right place to comment from the sidelines about what is happening in Ferrari. What I can say is that we have been in a situation with Nico and Lewis that was tricky to manage at times.
“And equally, it is not easy with Valtteri and Lewis, because two drivers that want to win races and do have the potential to win championships, that can be conflicting interests sometimes, and you just need to talk about it. And it’s not trivial.
“It’s a situation that certainly has an advantage for the team, because drivers are pushing each other and extracting more performance out of the car, but equally in managing personalities and strong characters is never trivial, whether it’s drivers or engineers or managers in general.”
At the same time, Horner had a big saga when Vettel paired up with Mark Webber where the German was regarded as the Number 1. In more recent times, situation between Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen was handled in a much better way.
“I think different teams have different philosophies,” he said. “Arguably having a very clearly defined number one and number two driver is almost easier to work with. That isn’t our philosophy at Red Bull.
“We allow the drivers to race and sometimes that can be uncomfortable, as we saw in Azerbaijan in 2018. But the philosophy that we’ve always had is to give both guys the same opportunity and let them establish who is the lead driver on track.
“I think so long as you have clear rules of engagement then we’ve been, I would say, 90 per cent successful with that. I think in the three years that Max and Daniel raced with each other there were only ever two incidents, which considering they were starting next to each other at 90 per cent of the races is a pretty decent ratio.
“But each team has its own philosophy. It doesn’t make one right or one wrong, it’s just unique to each team, how they choose to racing.” If Mercedes end up having a two-horse title fight, it will be interesting to see Hamilton and Bottas situation.
As for Ferrari, team principal Mattia Binotto have stressed time and again that for starters they have Vettel in mind but they will be open to support either if the situation demands for that. So far, Charles Leclerc has shown the pace but consistency will be key too.
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