Lewis Hamilton has passionately denied being furious with his Mercedes team for a poorly-timed pit stop that resulted in him finishing fifth at the Turkish Grand Prix. After coming out of the pit lane, Hamilton swore at his Mercedes team on the radio, saying: ‘F***, man, why did you give up that space?’. Hamilton first received the call over the Mercedes radio to come in on lap 42, with his team believing that new tyres were needed to finish the race. Hamilton cried: ‘F*** man, why did you give up that space?’. ‘We shouldn’t have come in, man,’ Hamilton roared down the radio. When asked whether Hamilton should have come in when they asked him to, Wolff added: ‘That would have been better than what we ended up with.

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