The Mercedes boss is not happy with the Williams one after comments made about Mick Schumacher.
Addressing the possibility of Schumacher joining the team, Vowles said: “I think we have to be straightforward about this: Mick is not special. He has just been good. I think he would come with a lot more experience than Franco does.”
Schumacher is a Mercedes F1 reserve, with Wolff criticising his former strategy chief Vowles.
“I’ve obviously known James for many years, he’s a strategist,” Wolff explained to Sky Sports F1.
"Sometimes he says things too straightforwardly, that was a statement he could have done without.
"Mick has won everything there is to win, from F4, F3 and F2, and then of course operated in an environment with Gunther [Steiner], who is brutally tough and that was perhaps not what he needed to develop as a driver.
I think I’m with Toto here. Not choosing Schumacher is fine. Nobody is entitled to an F1 seat. But to then say “Mick is not special” is just needlessly rubbing salt into the wound.
Some people love the ‘brutal’ part of being brutally honest a bit too much, I think.
Agreed, yesterday I said Vowles was on a roll, but the more I think about it the more I feel he was being a jerk without any reason and it doesn’t fit him.
It’s just word choice, but nepotism is alive and well in racing. Just ask the fifteen Andretti drivers.
