Wolff no longer throws headphones: 'Got the right dose of medication now'
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- Ludo van Denderen
Toto Wolff has become a different person. Whereas the CEO and team principal of the Mercedes F1 team sometimes jumped out of his skin or flung headphones, the Austrian has been calm in recent weeks. Even as Mercedes fails to match Red Bull for the third year in a row (and even Ferrari seems too fast), Wolff remains calm and bashful.
It has been noticed in the paddock. Even his staff see that Wolff is icily calm at the moment, even though there are plenty of reasons to be irritated. "Thinking about the founding the right medication volume, like they just increased the dose," laughed Wolff faced last weekend in Jeddah.
Wolff has changed his mindset
Then the Austrian seriously said, "I've changed my mindset. I don't think that additional pressure on all of us makes it better. I think we have a problem with the physics. It is not by lack of trying or by the mindset or the motivation or energies, all of that is there. And I can see the bows in the organisation."
"And as a racers when we have such results, you're feeling down, but we're trying to change that in the right motivation for the week that comes. And that's why we are believing that we can turn this around. We believe that our organisation can dig ourselves out and I am 100% sure we can finish the business," Wolff said.
For now, two Grands Prix have been completed and Mercedes is still waiting for their first podium finish. Lewis Hamilton's ninth-place finish in Saudi Arabia last weekend was by no means a fluke.