Wolff criticises Mercedes’ rivals for “ridiculous” Concorde Agreement comments | RaceFans Round-up

What they say

Wolff was asked what obstacles there were to signing the new Concorde Agreement:

I don’t know why some of the other teams made those ridiculous commentary that they’re ready to sign and there seems to be some competitors that are not. They make themselves a laughing stock with those comments in the public.

Negotiations should be taking place behind closed door without a running commentary from competitors. And in that respect, we’re talking to Liberty, we are keen on staying in Formula 1, there are some clauses which bother us a little bit, but nothing that can’t be sorted.

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Nissany handed post-Feature Race penalty (F2)

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A better Saturday (Ferrari)

MAttia Binotto: “It’s interesting to note the difference down the few straight sections on this track, between some cars and the rest of the pack.”

Calculated roll of dice helps Pagenaud hit last-to-first jackpot at Iowa (IndyCar)

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Qualifying recap (Haas)

“Going onto the last set I was quite convinced we had a chance to get into Q2, the car felt good. I guess we missed our timing and I had to press the neutral button before the last corner to let the queue go. My tires were then dead cold by turn one and that was qualifying over.”

F1 fans follow the action from hills around Hungaroring (Reuters)

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