Susie Wolff: My Story From the Inside - The FIA Investigation, F1 Academy & Hamilton’s Reaction (E376)
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4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In a sport long dominated by men, Susie Wolff has carved her own path, turning barriers into breakthroughs and setbacks into strength. From proving her place on the grid to leading a complete transformation of F1 Academy, Susie’s story is one of belief, vision, and resilience.
In this episode, she opens up about being dismissed as a “token gesture,” the determination it took to be taken seriously, and how she rebuilt her career after painful setbacks. Susie also shares her bold approach to leadership, creating cultures built on trust, empowerment, and authenticity, and the powerful partnership she shares with Toto Wolff, grounded in mutual respect and open communication.
This is a conversation about courage, conviction, and carving out your place in the world, on your own terms.
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| 0:00.0 | Unlock it early on the high performance app. |
| 0:02.5 | Available now, Mika Hakenen, |
| 0:04.5 | the Formula One World Champion who mastered life at 200 miles an hour |
| 0:08.0 | and the mindset it takes to win. |
| 0:11.7 | There's punch he's thrown every now and then, |
| 0:14.2 | but then when it all started unfolding that it was serious, |
| 0:17.6 | that's when I really got angry. |
| 0:19.9 | There was a party, and there was a powerful member who tried |
| 0:25.2 | to get into my room at 2 o'clock in the morning. Something inside of me said, you can't let it |
| 0:30.7 | end like this. By the February of the following year, I'd had the call from Mercedes. That really |
| 0:35.5 | was the moment that changed everything. |
| 0:39.7 | That is the voice of the irrepressible Susie Wolfe, a pioneering CEO, a team leader, |
| 0:45.7 | one of the most powerful leaders in global motorsport, one of the few women to drive a car |
| 0:50.7 | during a Formula One race weekend. But this is actually a story not just about someone |
| 0:55.6 | relentlessly pursuing speed, but actually relentlessly pursuing the ability to have her voice heard |
| 1:01.8 | in a world where so often in the past it would have been drowned out. She also though, Damien |
| 1:07.1 | shares with us the kind of the heavy price I guess that comes with trying to be a person |
| 1:12.8 | who's creating change in a world. Yeah, definitely. This is around the constant internal fight |
| 1:17.9 | that goes on for Susie, the pressure of performing under a microscope in a world that doesn't |
| 1:23.0 | always want to make space for her. I particularly love the crucial moment she shares where her |
| 1:28.0 | husband Toto delivered a single line that forced her to stop and think. You're going to hear so |
| 1:33.9 | much in this conversation from the feeling of being a token gesture to diversity to becoming a |
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