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I’ll leave you guys to interpret what that expression means…

But this year the gods didn't want you to be champion at all.

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"You’ve almost got to laugh. I’m beyond disappointment. It’s just so many times this season it’s happened. It’s a real shame, but we just keep on fighting. Just keep on trying to go."

"The podium looked very certain. Solid race, not amazing race, but solid race. Not the first time, so I’m pretty used to this feeling and these questions."

"I don't need to say I think it's gone or whatever, but of course [the title] exceptionally unlikely. A three-point loss to Kimi turned into an 18-point loss. If it had been on the other side, it would have been an 18-point gain."

"It's a real shame, but that's just how it is"

Toto speaking to Sky Sports F1:

🗣️"It’s a power unit failure. It wasn’t caused by the Safety Car. We haven’t assessed it yet."

"I’m so massively annoyed, and not in a happy place."

"First of all, we didn’t have the speed that we were hoping to have before the weekend, so there’s a lot of homework to be done in order to recover, which I’m sure we will."

"Then the race literally, if you consider the fight with Lewis behind, went against us. We had such an advantage, one VSC, two Safety Cars, you couldn’t be more unlucky."

"And to make things worse, a PU failure with a few laps to go until the end for George, which is terrible for his championship and not good at all for our constructors’ points."

"So, as much as I love to be here when I look at the pure races, one of my worst experiences, to be honest."

Should Mercedes just have left Kimi out on the last Pit Stop? Since Max stopped and Kimi became the leader of the race behind a safety car, and Kimi would never have the pace to overtake Max in the race, shouldn't Mercedes just have gambled and left Kimi out? I feel that was a missed opportunity

Toto Wolff: “This has been our worst weekend of the season. It hurts, and I feel incredibly sorry for George and everyone in the team.”

“George drove an outstanding race and was on course for a very strong result, but we let him down. The reality is that has happened too often this year, and that is not acceptable.”