F1 | Toto Wolff slams Dutch GP result: “humiliation” for the entire grid. Toto Wolff calls McLaren’s dominant performance at the Dutch GP a “humiliation” for Mercedes, Red Bull, and Ferrari.

F1 | Toto Wolff calls McLaren’s dominant performance at the Dutch GP a “humiliation”

McLaren dominated the Dutch F1 Grand Prix, and Toto Wolff was not holding back: it was a “humiliation” for everyone, including Mercedes, Red Bull, and Ferrari. The Woking team proved unstoppable, with only a mechanical issue on Lando Norris’ car preventing an easy 1-2 finish. With the major technical upgrades now behind them, on tracks like Zandvoort it will be nearly impossible to challenge the superiority of the team led by Andrea Stella.

McLaren lived up to pre-race expectations: pole position, race win, and fastest lap at Zandvoort. The MCL39 once again demonstrated that it is the fastest car on the grid. Only a brave Max Verstappen managed, for a few laps, to place his car ahead of one of the Papaya-colored cars—a fleeting illusion before Lando Norris regained track position from the four-time world champion.

Reliability was the only factor holding back Woking, denying them a simple 1-2 finish—which would have been their eighth of the season—and leaving Lando Norris to cope with the disappointment of seeing his long-anticipated first world title slip further away. Such dominance, according to Toto Wolff, is a genuine humiliation for all rivals, and after the race, he admitted he could not feel satisfied with the result.

McLaren too fast, “humiliating” the rivals

Mercedes faced additional challenges with George Russell’s car, damaged in a duel with Charles Leclerc, and the crash involving Andrea Kimi Antonelli. Without the penalty imposed on the Italian driver, the two Brackley cars would have finished fourth and sixth, respectively. While still a decent result, bringing the Silver Arrows closer to Ferrari in the championship standings, Toto Wolff was far from content.

“It’s a difficult situation,” he admitted to journalists after the race, including F1inGenerale.com reporters. “How can we be satisfied with a fourth and a sixth place without that penalty? It’s not a great result. And I think this weekend there was a certain balance between [Verstappen], us, and the Ferraris. Max was the fastest, but the Ferraris were close.”

“So we cannot be satisfied, considering what happened at the end, with McLaren on hard tires and all of us on softs. It was a true humiliation for all of us,” the Austrian concluded.