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Jan312021 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Wolff: Hamilton’s time at Mercedes is running out

Mercedes boss and co-owner Toto Wolff has hinted that Lewis Hamilton will sign a new contract soon, however, but the Briton’s time on the team is running out as he is likely to only get a two-year contract. Negotiations between Hamilton and Mercedes over the new contract have been going on for several months now, and officially the Briton has even been unemployed since 1 January this year, as he has not signed any valid contract. Negotiations were delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and later rumors circulated that Hamilton demanded at least a three-year contract with the possibility of extension, a share of the team prize in case of winning the title of design champion, and a free supercar Mercedes AMG-One, and subsequently wants a Mercedes stay connected even after the end of a Formula 1 racer’s career. Wolff has now hinted that

Mar92015 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Wolff: McLaren is not hiding anything

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Toto Wolff, head of the Mercedes team, said he did not believe McLaren Honda was hiding or misleading anything about the Fernando Alonso crash at tests in Barcelona. The Spaniard crashed into a concrete wall along the track on Feb. 22 and then spent four days in hospital, sparking wild speculation about the reasons for the crash. “The FIA is investigating the crash,” Wolff said. “If there was something like this that other teams should know, they would have already told us that,” he added, explaining that in such collisions, looks can be deceiving. "Often the least spectacular accidents have the biggest health consequences. After a concussion, you have to be careful, which makes more sense than traveling to the other side of the world, to drive a car that is unlikely to compete in the first race anyway," he added. added Wolff. Similarly ra

Mar72015 by Blaž Štremfelj16 Comments

Wolff expects resistance from Williams and Ferrari

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In last year's Formula One championship, we watched the Mercedes team drive. Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have won 16 of the 19 races of the season in which Mercedes made history as the most dominant team ever. Also in this year’s pre-season testing, Rosberg and Hamilton set the fastest times, while the Williams and Ferrari teams were also close. The first one regularly picked up third places last year and was crowned with the status of "best of the rest". The team of the current champions, however, faced some problems in the tests, which could open the way for their competitors to succeed in the fight against the Silver Arrows. “I wouldn’t go into too much analysis of lap times, as we don’t know how much fuel the racers put them in,” said Toto Wolff, the team’s sports chief. "Tega n

Jan52015 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Wolff's one day of winter testing

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Susie Wolff will drive a Williams FW37 race car for one day in mid-February. Wolff joined the Williams team in 2012 and recently progressed from development racer to test driver. The first winter testing will take place between 1 and 4 February in Jerez, followed by two tests in Barcelona between 19 and 22 February and between 26 February and 1 March. The Williams team finished third last year in the championship, and this season they will be competing with the unchanged driver line-up of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas.

Dec42014 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Rosberg's title fight broke out in Spa

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Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff admitted that the race for the Belgian Grand Prix, where Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton collided with each other, was a turning point where the German broke down this year. “After Spa, it was hard for Nico,” Wolff said. "After that race, he was confused because he no longer knew what he could and couldn't do." Rosberg started the race in Spa Franchorchamps from the first place, but after the start Hamilton took the lead. At the end of the plane, Camel was faster than his teammate, who did not let go of the race in Hungary in the same situation, despite the team's instructions. Rosberg's Hamton move at the Hungaroring cost him the win, so this time he wanted to take advantage of the first opportunity already offered to him in the chic Les Combes. But the Briton closed the way for him in cold blood, with the Mercedes racing

Nov242014 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Mercedes let Rosberg down

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Mercedes sporting boss Toto Wolff has admitted that Nico Rosberg’s team in Abu Dhabi, where he and teammate Lewis Hamilton fought for the championship title, was let down after Necem finished the race in 14th place. Rosberg was 17 points behind Hamilton before the start of the race, and the failure of the ERS system destroyed his already small chances of winning at the start, and completely buried them in the middle of the race, when the system completely failed. “We worked so hard to make the race car reliable so the boy could fight to the finish line, so we were left with a bitter aftertaste,” Wolff said. "I feel like we let him down a bit. It would have been hard to win because his start was broken, but the fact that Nico couldn't get to the finish line is a personal drama for us, because we

Nov172014 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Mercedes prepared a psychologist for Hamilton

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The Mercedes team has hired legendary sports psychologist Ceri Evans, who will come to the aid of Lewis Hamilton if the Briton in Abu Dhabi fails to win the title. The 29-year-old Hamilton has a 17-point advantage over Nico Rosberg, and Sunday's race will decide who wins this year's championship. Although Hamilton has won ten times this year and Rosberg five times, he could still lose the title in the last race as double points will be shared. Hamilton had previously refused the help of a psychologist, but Mercedes boss Toto Wolff fears the consequences of losing the title could be so far-reaching that a racer who loses the title will need help. “I’ve been thinking a lot about what it will be like when the fight is decided,” Wolff said. “Alain Prost left a deep impression on me in 1984 with how well p

Nov112014 by Blaž Štremfelj50 Comments

Wolff: The war over engines will hurt Formula 1

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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said other teams would hurt Formula One if they ignited a predicted war around motorcycles. With the transition to six-cylinder engines, Mercedes managed a big throw as they produced by far the best engine in a caravan. Ferrari and Renault are working to make an exception in the rules restricting engine development for next season to allow them to catch up, but Mercedes opposes it. That’s why teams using Renault and Ferrari engines have announced a vote to lift the development ban altogether for the 2016 season. Wolff believes such a move would be disastrous for Formula One. "The rules can be changed by a majority vote, but I don't think the threat of a general war around motorcycles is the right way to go. Teams are threatening that if

October202014 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Susie Wolff first woman on RoC

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At the end of this year, Susie Wolff will become the first woman to compete in the famous Race of Champions, which this time will take place in Brbados. The Scot, who raced in the German DTM series for seven years and has now been working with the Formula One Williams team since 2012, will race against some famous names such as Tom Kristensen, who is a nine-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. It will also be raced by Lotus racer Romain Grosjean, Indianapolis 500 mile race winner Ryan Hunter-Reay, Australian V8 Supercar series driver Jamie Whincup, and first world relics champion and rally legend Petter Solber. "I have a regular job at Williams, but nothing outweighs the adrenaline in the race, so I can't wait to compete with other racers," he told us.

Sep82014 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Was Rosberg's mistake staged?

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After the race for the Italian Grand Prix, many spectators flooded online networks with theories that it was a mistake by Nic Rosberg, who left the victory to Lewis Hamilton, to serve the sentence of the German from Blegia, where the team accused him of Hamilton's resignation, after their collision. Mercedes sports boss Toto Wolff, who we could see in the garage at the time of Rosberg’s transmission error with a smile on his face, denied such and similar claims, saying it was a common racing mistake. “He was watching the rear tires,” Wolff explained to Rosberg’s drive past the chicane. "He drove past the chicane because he shifted the balance of the brakes to the front wheels, which blocked him during heavy braking. Nico rarely makes mistakes, but on Sunday he made two identical ones in the same place. But I have to admit that after the race we haven't