Toto Wolff has thrown shade at those who continue to criticise the 2026 F1 cars after the Miami Grand Prix, insisting they should \u201chide\u201d.<\/p>\n
F1 returned after a five-week break last weekend in Miami, offering a first look at the cars and the modifications that were installed after some early-season complaints.<\/p>\n
However, criticism of the cars continued, with reigning Lando Norris sounding his disappointment and suggesting the only fix is to get rid of the battery entirely.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, there was a fierce early-race battle for the lead between multiple teams before Kimi Antonelli stretched his legs later in the race en route to his third consecutive victory.<\/p>\n
Praising the spectacle, Wolff told media including RacingNews365: \u201cIf there’s one single person that complains about the race today, I think they should hide, honestly.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, obviously this track is a little bit easier, it’s not so energy-stuffed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s good games and there’s bad games, so I think that was great, great advertising for F1.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tWolff: McLaren has made a big step<\/p>\n
While Antonelli was able to take the grand prix win, Mercedes was defeated in the sprint race on Saturday, with Norris taking victory.<\/p>\n
Mercedes’ rivals used the April break to close the gap to the front of the field, but Sunday’s race demonstrated the Brackley-based squad still has an advantage over the pack.<\/p>\n
Wolff has warned against getting complacent and asserted Mercedes must stay sharp in the development race.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to the competitive order, we’re still holding on to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the McLarens have made a big step. Red Bull on pure pace was massive in qualifying.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess the strategy didn’t really play well for them. In that respect, it wasn’t easy at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we just got to keep developing, because this is a development race throughout the season and see how our upgrades are going to work in Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff has thrown shade at those who continue to criticise the 2026 F1 cars after the Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-412555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","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-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}