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Toto Wolff says he repeatedly offered to resign as Mercedes team principal

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Wolff said CEO Ola Källenius repeatedly told him to stay after he offered to resign during Mercedes’ recent struggles.

From the GPBeat newsroomPublished · · 1 min

At the 2026 Golden Steering Wheel awards in Berlin, Toto Wolff said he had offered to resign as Mercedes team principal several times in recent years, but Mercedes-Benz Group CEO Ola Källenius had always told him to continue.

The offers came amid Mercedes’ struggles in the ground-effect era, after its historic run of constructors’ championships. In 2026, the team won the constructors’ title in Brazil.

Wolff is also a shareholder in the Mercedes F1 team. He has said he would step aside from day-to-day leadership if he believed someone else could manage the team better.

Asked in Berlin whether he planned to remain in the role, Wolff joked that Källenius was forcing him to stay.

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