In an extract from his new book, Giles Richards talks to the Mercedes team principal about his rise to prominence and moulding one of the most dominant teams in Formula One
F1 Racing Confidential: Inside Stories from the World of Formula One, peers under the bonnet to reveal the sport’s characters from big names such as Toto Wolff and Lando Norris to the unsung engineers and strategists who keep the show on the road
‘One of the advantages and perhaps disadvantages of my character is that I take everything personally,” Toto Wolff says. “When I joined, the team became my tribe; it was all-encompassing. Every day, the minute I woke up to the minute I fell asleep it was all I did. Caring about the people, about what we needed to be in order to be successful.”