Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said Lewis Hamilton's and George Russell's Austrian Grand Prix qualifying crashes would hit the team in the pocket but he would rather have a quick car that went into the wall than one that was slow.
The pair spun into the barriers one after the other in the final phase of Friday's qualifying for Saturday's sprint at the Spielberg circuit.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMercedes said seven-times world champion Hamilton had been switched to the spare chassis and both cars would be fitted with different gearboxes from the permitted pool, without any grid penalty.
"Yesterday in the garage in the early evening it looked really like somebody dropped a Lego car on the floor. The mechanics are doing great work," Wolff told reporters on Saturday. Hamilton has finished third in the last two races and led the British Grand Prix at Silverstone last Sunday. "I think the car is still tricky to drive," said Wolff. "Now we can actually fight for front positions, I'm really happy to see that they attack.
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