Toto Wolff has highlighted what he believes is a major difference between current F1 title contenders Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri compared to the Lewis Hamilton-Nico Rosberg feuds.<\/p>\n
For the first time since Hamilton and Rosberg fought for the 2016 title, a pair of team-mates are battling for the F1 drivers’ title, with McLaren’s Piastri leading by 31 points from Norris with eight grands prix remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both are seeking a maiden F1 title, with the fight being relatively clean thus far, with the only flashpoint being Norris taking himself out of the Canadian GP after colliding with Piastri.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hamilton-Rosberg is often described as one of the fiercest intra-team battles in F1 history, but Wolff believes the situation Zak Brown and Andrea Stella face at McLaren is “very different.”<\/p>\n
“We had two different animals in the car, in Lewis and Nico,” Wolff told media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“They were two assassins, maybe assassins is not the right word, but they were two fierce combatants that took no prisoners, racing against each other at times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was very difficult to manage, but I don’t see that at McLaren.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“First of all, where it was difficult for us in 2016 was that they were there for a long time, Lewis was a world champion, and it was two lions in the car that went at each other’s throats, that is very different today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff has highlighted what he believes is a major difference between current F1 title contenders Lando Norris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-142430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}