Toto Wolff has backed Charles Leclerc’s claim that not even a “single conversation” about the Ferrari driver switching to Mercedes has taken place. “As he said, we didn’t have a single conversation, except maybe at the airport about whether to go to Starbucks,” Mercedes boss Wolff said. However, reporters openly laughed at Leclerc when he denied the Mercedes talks on Thursday, indicating that the 25-year-old is most certainly shopping around amid Ferrari’s current troubles. “I could certainly imagine that Charles Leclerc might be hoping that Lewis Hamilton is no longer interested in Mercedes,” Ralf Schumacher told formel1.de. Leclerc, on the other hand, insisted that it’s all a storm in a teacup.

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