Toto Wolff changed his plans and flies to Japan

Toto Wolff changed his plans and will still fly to Japan, although he missed this stage of the championship the past two years.

It was previously reported that he would not go to Suzuka, but Mercedes confirmed that the team leader will be at the track this weekend to support them during this difficult period.

In Australia, both Mercedes cars withdrew from the race, and while in George Russell’s case this was the result of an incident, Lewis Hamilton dropped out of the race due to technical problems with the engine. After three stages of the season, the team is in 4th place in the Constructors’ Championship and has already lost 71 points to Red Bull Racing, 67 behind Ferrari and 29 behind McLaren. At the same time, Aston Martin, whose cars are powered by Mercedes engines, has almost overtaken the factory team of the Stuttgart concern and achieved 25 points, that is, it has only one less.

The recent Australian leg was one of the most unsuccessful in all the years Wolff has led a team that has recently won championship after championship. At the same time, he combines the duties of the head with the position of executive director, i.e. is also responsible for the economic side of his work.

“As responsible for this company, I must ensure that I make a positive and creative contribution to the whole,” Wolff emphasized during the weekend in Melbourne. “If anyone has an idea on how to improve it, I will be the first to ask you to share it with me because it is in my interest to turn the situation around as quickly as possible.”

Explanations for our problems must be sought in the field of physics, because they are not philosophical or organizational in nature. We simply cannot understand the behavior of our machine, although we have always understood this in the past…”