(Reuters) -Mercedes Formula One boss Toto Wolff has dismissed Red Bull's failed protest of George Russell's Canadian Grand Prix win as petty and embarrassing. Stewards threw out the protest some five and a half hours after the chequered flag came down on the race in Montreal on Sunday.

Toto Wolff has slammed Red Bull ’s late protest against George Russell at the Canadian Grand Prix as “petty” and “embarrassing.” Russell, who started on pole, fended off the challenge of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen behind him to win the Montreal race, claiming his fourth F1 win and Mercedes’s first victory of the season.

MONTREAL — Mercedes driver George Russell retained his Canadian GP win on Sunday after F1 stewards rejected a Red Bull post-race protest. After a hearing involving both teams, Russell, Verstappen, and the FIA, the stewards found the protest admissible but ultimately dismissed it, saying the protest was “not founded.”