Wolff 'disturbed' by FIA claims about Mercedes employees

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has labelled revelations that it was two Silver Arrows employees who triggered the FIA investigation into he legality of Ferrari's 2018 F1 vehicle as "disturbing". while insisting it is his job to protect the employees working for Mercedes.

Prior to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the FIA were tipped off that Ferrari's ERS unit may not be performing under regulatory boundaries, but have since cleared the Prancing Horse of any wrongdoing, with the motorsport governing body "satisfied" with their findings.

According to the Mail on Sunday, the two Mercedes employees involved were technical director, James Allison, and Lorenzo Sassi - a former Ferrari employee.

Wolff has described the allegations as "disturbing".

"One of my roles is to protect my people and if certain individuals are named in the wrong context, then that is disturbing," the Mercedes team boss said.

"Teams question the FIA every single day. I think it's not important to put it out that this person has questioned a legality topic. If you say a certain team has done that, then it is perfectly fine, that is modus operandi. Picking out individuals isn't the right thing."

The FIA have closed the investigation into Ferrari, and it is not Wolff's intention to lodge a complaint about his employees being named.

"No judgement has been made on anything, no protest has been lodged, it's just a press statement," he continued.

"We trust them. If they have looked at things, then it's fine."

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FIA technical delegate Charlie Whiting explained to Sky Sports F1 at the Monaco Grand Prix as to why Ferrari were cleared.

"We first heard something from a team shortly before Baku," Whiting alleged.

"When we hear things like that, usually from teams who have taken employees from another team, we were asked to look at a certain aspect on the Ferrari.

"This happens quite a lot. We did and we have always been looking at data to make sure cars are not using more power than they should be. In this particular case, the data looked a little unusual, it was very difficult to explain.

"But Ferrari use a different energy store to anybody else, and it's much more complex so it took us a little while to work our way through it to explain the anomalies.

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