Toto Wolff was shocked to discover Lewis Hamilton was testing superbikes earlier this month.
“When the news spread, I tried to call him, in vain,” Wolff told German outlet Bild.
“So I called one of the three engineers who was with him. ‘Where are you? Er, um, we're on a track. Are you turning all three on the motorbike, then? Yes, but... we're done’.”
Hamilton escaped his incident unscathed but Wolff could not resist having a chuckle at the 33-year-old’s misfortune.
“We all had a liberating laugh,” he added.
“But it is clear that for Christmas I will not give him a bike!”