Toto Wolff has clarified the situation surrounding Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas swapping chassis for the French Grand Prix. Hamilton has been driving Mercedes’ chassis number six all season, with Bottas now taking on that base and the Briton switching to chassis number four instead. “We swap parts around all the time, and this is part of the planning – to carry over chassis for a second season so we’re not accumulating millions of miles on one. Basically, it’s part of the plan,” the Austrian told Sky Sports F1 after second practice. “But it’s good to get the feedback and if it calms the driver’s mind, we have a spare chassis which is a brand new one – we can always do that.” The Mercedes team principal was quick to dismiss any ideas of a lack of performance on one chassis compared to the other. “It was the chassis that was splendid [for Bottas] in Monaco, that qualified Valtteri right in [the] front,” Wolff added. “But you never know [if there are differences], you listen to the engineers who said it’s all tested and stiff, there shouldn’t be any difference. “But if the driver feels that it’s not, then it’s definitely not worth trying to make a point here and you just need to change.”
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