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F1 Beyond The Grid

Toto Wolff: falling behind in 22, fighting back in 23

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

He’s led Mercedes to 115 race wins in Formula 1, but Toto Wolff is only focused on the next victory. The Silver Arrows stumbled in 2022. They learned lessons while they were down and scored a late-season win to fire them up for 2023. Toto tells Tom Clarkson how a difficult year will benefit the team in future. He explains how the performance of George Russell, the leadership of Lewis Hamilton, the legacy of Niki Lauda and Toto’s own influence will be key ingredients in Mercedes recovery. ‘The days we lose are the days our competitors will regret, because we learn the most’, says Toto. It sounds like he’s already racing for that next win…

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Few people know more about winning in Formula One than Total Wolf.

0:08.6

For the Mercedes team principle, anything other than first feels like failure.

0:14.3

Winning lasted overnight.

0:16.2

The feeling was gone and you were thinking about the next race.

0:19.6

But when losing, I felt it so much as a personal downfall that it lasted for a few days.

0:27.3

The 115 race wins, eight constructors championships and seven drivers titles,

0:33.1

one under Total's leadership so far, are in the past.

0:36.8

And so now is 2022, a season where the silver arrows fell short of the target.

0:42.9

In the organisation, nobody should say that we've done a bad job here.

0:49.0

There's no hiding, there's no seeking for explanation how we ended up there.

0:53.0

I mean, all of us are saying we got this very wrong.

0:57.0

And others got it very right.

0:59.0

With our learnings, I think we will be back in a more potent form next year,

1:04.1

but is it a given? Certainly not.

1:13.4

Welcome to F1 Beyond the Grid with me, Tom Clarkson.

1:18.0

Total always says, you learn the most when you don't win.

1:21.6

So the end of a difficult season is really the best time to be talking to him.

1:26.6

As you've just heard, he's very open about the team's problems in 2022.

1:31.0

There's much more about the car, why it's bouncing problems, slowed them down,

1:35.3

and how they're looking to improve for 2023.

1:38.7

We look back at the high point of the past season.

1:41.0

George Russell's win in Brazil and why Toto actually isn't sorry,

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