Wolff weighs splitting his Mercedes role between two or three people

Toto Wolff is weighing a succession structure that would divide his Mercedes responsibilities between two or three people, rather than hand the whole job to one replacement. He says he is assessing people whose strengths lie in different areas.

Wolff combines the team principal position with the CEO role in Mercedes’ motorsport division. On the Cheeky Pint podcast, he said he wants a structure that lets the team operate without him in his current role.

Wolff owns 33% of the Mercedes F1 team alongside INEOS and Mercedes-Benz. He said a clean break would probably not be possible if he continued to own his stake, and floated a future executive or non-executive chairmanship as one possibility.

Wolff said any such position would need precise boundaries so he could not interfere in the team’s daily operations.