MERCEDES boss Toto Wolff fiercely defended organisers of the Las Vegas Grand Prix with a passionate rant following Thursday’s cancelled practice session. “We are Thursday night, we have a free practice session one that we are not doing. We are going to seal the drain covers and no one is going to talk about that tomorrow morning.”. “Then you are speaking about a f***ing drain cover that has been undone – that has happened before – that’s nothing. “Liberty [F1’s owners Liberty Media] has done an awesome job and just because in FP1 a drain cover has come undone we shouldn’t be moaning. “But talking here about the black eye for the sport on a Thursday evening… nobody watches it at European time anyway.

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