Toto Wolff terminated an admonition to George Russell about his potential Mercedes future after his association in an enormous accident with Valtteri Bottas at Imola.
Russell is relied upon to be next in line for a Mercedes race seat, his profession being overseen by the group's co-proprietor Wolff who has sent him out for a three-year 'credit' spell at Williams to sharpen his abilities.
In any case, the Briton, who slammed out of the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at a similar scene behind the Safety Car, endured one more day to forget in Italy as he slammed into Bottas on lap 32 and sent the two vehicles turning at rapid into the obstructions.
The Williams and Mercedes were seriously harmed however neither one of the drivers was harmed, just furious with one another – as proven by their responses over the group radio and a trackside conflict, with Bottas 'flipping the bird' at Russell who reacted with a swipe at the Finn's cap.
Taking out a Mercedes, which he was attempting to pass, was not the path for Russell to support his odds of driving for the current World Champions in 2022 – unexpectedly, when Bottas' place is bound to be accessible except if Sir Lewis Hamilton chooses to resign.
Wolff said on Sky F1 that the 23-year-old had obviously avoided him in the prompt result, yet cautioned with offhanded that a considerably less lofty arrangement than F1 may be Russell's course on the off chance that he continues to allow himself to down – despite the fact that he avoided distributing direct fault to one or the other driver.
"It was a terrible shunt," said the Austrian. "There wasn't a great deal of amicable trades between the two, I presume.
"In any case, we need to take a gander at it again on the grounds that it takes two to tango. Perhaps it's a 60-40 yet I wouldn't know in which bearing.
"I haven't seen George yet – he didn't come [to see me]. I continue to prod him, I said in the event that he works effectively he can be in a Mercedes, if not we're doing the Renault Clio Cup and today we're all the more near the Renault Clio Cup."
Not long before the accident, Hamilton, running second to inevitable race victor Max Verstappen, had gone off while lapping Russell and required a significant stretch of time to turn around back onto the track from the rock having plugged facing the boundary with a harmed front wing.
The warning stoppage brought about by the Bottas/Russell crash wandered right into whatever Hamilton might have had planned as he took the restart in P9 however on a similar lap, and moved gradually up to a completing situation of second.
Setting the quickest lap of the race implies Hamilton drives the World Championship by one from Verstappen, with their placings switched at Imola from the season-opener in Bahrain.
"That was not my most cheerful second," said Wolff of lap 32, when the two episodes happened. "At the point when we thought the race was totally lost, Lewis' unfathomable driving just saved we all today once more.
"We are as yet driving the title with the quickest lap and what really gives it a silver coating, or a positive implication today, is that we appear to have a truly speedy race vehicle. We had that in Bahrain as well and today I would say unmistakably the speediest vehicle and we simply need to figure out our passing exhibitions."
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