The role of Team Principal is a thing of the past for Toto Wolff

To Toto wolff, the era which dedicated the Team Principal to the head of the stables of F1 is over. “This role is a thing of the past. » he told the official F1 website. “The structure that we decided to put in place clearly separates the skills. Paddy Lowe handles the technical and racing aspects, and I'm more geared towards the commercial and business side. The most important thing is that we work together as a team and combine our skills. I will say that it's like any other big company: there's not just one person who makes all the decisions. »

“This position in a team comes from the emblematic men who founded the teams: Frank Williams, Ken Tyrrell and even Ron Dennis, who managed all aspects of their teams. But these were teams with 100 to 200 people maximum, of a manageable size for a single person. The sport as a whole was not organized as professionally as it is today. The days when a single person decided on policy, shareholder issues, management of the organization and the actual race no longer exist. »

Ross Brawn, former Team Principal of Mercedes, left office at the end of last year, and recently announced that he was leaving F1 for good.