While Mattia Binotto’s resignation from Ferrari started a domino effect of team principal moves in the paddock, Jost Capito’s departure from Williams took everybody by surprise. The announcement that their team principal would be leaving came in December and it took until late January for Williams to finally appoint a replacement. The man that has
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has stressed that he would “never allow” an inter-team rivalry to affect the Brackley-based team, with many predicting that 2023 could see Lewis Hamilton versus George Russell for the championship. Should the Germans have a competitive car this year, then it would be safe to assume that Hamilton and Russell
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff appears to have taken an early shot at rival Christian Horner ahead of the upcoming 2023 season, with the Austrian having admitted that thinking about the Red Bull team principal is a “waste of time in my life”. The Brackley-based team are attempting to reclaim their Constructors’ Championship trophy from
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has praised the introduction of the budget cap as having protected the teams “from ourselves”, with a “spending war” having occurred before Chase Carey introduced the cap. The former executive chairman of the pinnacle of motorsport introduced the budget cap into the sport in 2021, with the target being to
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The 2022 season saw the introduction of some huge regulation changes, which sent the teams back to the drawing board to design a completely new car. Mercedes have been almost unbeatable in recent years, with the W11 from 2020 being one of the most impressive pieces of machinery to ever be seen on a Formula
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has opened up on the moment that momentarily made him “fall out of love” with Formula 1 at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The 2021 season finale was truly unbelievable for a magnitude of reasons, other than Michael Masi’s handling of the race. To think that Lewis Hamilton and
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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has denied that Lewis Hamilton is ‘begging’ for a new contract with the Silver Arrows, with the Austrian insisting that the seven-time World Champion “will always have a seat with us”. It had been expected that a new deal would be signed between Hamilton and Mercedes before the start of the
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The team principals in the paddock last season decided that they wanted to be a part of the infamous ‘silly season’ that usually takes place in F1. Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, McLaren and Williams were all forced to look for a new boss in quick succession as resignations and replacements started a domino effect in the
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Towards the end of last season, both Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff confirmed that the Brit would sign a multi-year contract extension over the winter, to keep him tied to Mercedes for the foreseeable future. This news was reassuring for F1 fans, who had begun to speculate that after two very disappointing seasons, the seven-time
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2022 was a major disappointment for Mercedes, as the team were expected to thrive under the new regulations and produce a highly competitive car capable of challenging for the championship. As it turned out, the team completely misunderstood the major regulation changes and produced a W13 filled with problems. Alongside its lack of performance compared
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