Toto Wolff, the reaction of the Roman taxi drivers: “We better than the F1 drivers”

Toto Wolffe’s criticisms are difficult to go unnoticed. It also happened in Spain, when, after the F1 GP, Max Verstappen attacked. The Dutchman on Red Bull had made himself the protagonist in the negative because of the contact with George Russell, receiving a penalty and the retreat from the fifth to tenth place. The penalty did not appease the Principal Mercedes Team. Wolff used a comparison that made it further discussing: “Max behaved like some taxi drivers in Rome or Naples, without rules”. Wolff’s words have unleashed new controversies, coming from Italy.

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Toto replicas were frank. Loreno Bittarelli shows this. Interviewed by the Austrian newspaper OE24, the president of an association of taxi drivers in Rome was pungent, making a comparison between the guide in the city and that in the circuits: “We are better than the F1 drivers. They would not last an hour in the city traffic of Rome”. Bittattarelli adds: “We drive between construction sites, motorcycles, electric single -sections and tourist buses. Rome is a jungle, definitely worse than a formula 1 circuit”. But Bittarelli’s words were not the only answer.

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In fact, this edge was followed by other stored at Wolff’s address. The Coordinator Taxi Filt-Cgil, Nicola Di Giacobbe, attacked the Team Principal to the microphones of Corriere della Sera: “We guide how Mercedes since it goes at 30 km per hour like us”. An ironic reference to the not too exciting results of the German team in the 2025 world championship. Furthermore, Corriere della Sera always reports the outburst of an anonymous taxi driver: “Wolff’s words are a trivial commonplace. We are the first to do not want to do accidents, otherwise we put our day off”. Who knows if Wolff himself imagined creating so much sensation …