Toto Wolff believes teams should come together in order to strengthen decision making in F1

Toto Wolff believes teams should come together in order to strengthen decision making in F1

Mercedes' Toto Wolff and Red Bull's Christian Horner

The 2021 Formula 1 season was all about clutch decision making, by either the drivers, team members or perhaps the racing director. One of those eventually costed Lewis Hamilton his record-breaking 8th world championship. Now with the 2022 F1 season all set to unravel, Toto Wolff urges teams to come together in order to ensure such lapses do not take place in the upcoming season as well. 

Toto Wolff and Michael Masi
Toto Wolff and Michael Masi

There is no denying that the pressure on Michael Masi was unimaginable when Nicholas Latifi caused the Safety Car to come out. But with one decision following the other, Max Verstappen took advantage of the conditions present and eventually it broke the hearts of Toto Wolff, Lewis Hamilton and many others who wanted the 37-years-old to emerge victorious after making a significant comeback. 

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Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff
Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff

The boss of the Brackley-based team, Toto Wolff’s believes that F1’s sporting regulations should not be played with to “spice up the action”, but denied the suggestion that Masi may have been pressured into stopping the title being decided behind the Safety Car. 

“I would never say something like that, because in the end we provide entertainment, but that entertainment has to follow the sport and not the other way around,” said Wolff. 

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Stefano Domenicali

“Stefano Domenicali, {F1 CEO} is a real racing man and would not be interested in intervening in the races for the entertainment factor. I can’t judge the pressure the race director is under at the time, but the rules are the rules.” 

Having said that, with all the catastrophe from the past set and done, Wolff does believe that the teams need to put their heads together and come up with a plan to strengthen Formula 1’s decision making. 

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