#anti toto wolff

[pickingupmymercedes]

There's some underlying tone to all these Toto's interviews that are making my head hot but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Because riddle me why in the past week we've had two very different moments where his own words are contradictory to what he is saying himself (and I'm not talking years back I'm talking things he's also saying in those same interviews)

'shelf life' - is that how you publicly talk about a so called friend? and even if the friend card was pr, how does that make him, and the brand he represents, look with him summing up losing their 6x champion to worries on his 'cognitive sharpness', when the said driver has the second best reaction time on the grid and was third in the last wdc, behind only the two cars that won 22/23 races in the season.

Lewis being 'in a ok place' after 21' (when people close to him have stated otherwise, Lewis himself has stated otherwise) and how Toto has heard those things being said and still stands by his perception (he could easily just say he might've thought Lewis was ok back then but learned latter on it wasn't the case)

Leaving Lewis to shoulder criticism on his craft by himself (even when he was their testing guine pig) but still agrees that he's almost happy Lewis comes and shoulders responsibility publicly because it takes the pressure off the team. The team with the 'no blame culture'. The team that can't get this regs right 3 years into when they were introduced (mind you, the only team, openly and proudly, stating they're using the last 6 races 'to test for the next season')

[ohjustrandomfandomstuff]

I’m actually furious at Toto’s comments after George’s crash yesterday. Yes of course the recent crashes will put strain on the budget, but that isn’t just down to George. Both Lewis and Kimi have had crashes too. Yet the former is being singled out.

The difference in attitude is so annoying. Lewis got ‘ It must be the upgrades’ Kimi got ‘He had debris, which cost time’ and George got ‘Oh the cost cap’ Yet the fact that Kimi crashed George’s car after doing glory runs gets brushed under the carpet. I am so exhausted. Toto definitely has something personal against George at this point.

I’m so not looking forward to silly season next season. I hope George has a seat in 2026, he won’t have any help from Toto in doing so.

[nearmike]

I'm so tired of that Austrian shit.

Never once does he stand up for George as he does for everyone else, even that shitty car is defended more than his driver. A driver who, by the way, according to the Twitter gurus, gets preferential treatment.

It is as if he took him for granted, as if George owed everything to him and he owed nothing to George when in reality the poor guy has done everything he was asked to do and even a few carping jumps but never got back what he was promised. Plus there is the constant abuse he is subjected to on the Internet and which Mercedes has never even tried to stop.

Vasseur was slaughtered, rightly so, when he tried to blame Charles for qualifying in Singapore. Why does this Austrian hag manage to get away with everything? Not once does he manage to say half a respectful thing about his only remaining driver after all he has endured.

We can rightly connect our brains to realise that the car caused Lewis' accident in Austin but we can't copy-paste the same statement for George last week or this week? But then we don't even take responsibility for making do glory runs to Kimi and having him crash after two minutes.

Maybe it's time to stop shitting himself of possible accusations of sleeping with his driver and start being on his side for once. Or should I start believing he has something personal against him?

I’m so so so angry and the fact that George could have been hurt makes me even angrier

[georgegraphys]

Toto Wolff.... almost... made George jump from GP3 to F1.....

[britney-rosberg06]

about Those tags because i need to talk about your opinions but also am not sure on the tumblr etiquette of just ranting on ops post:

what do you think was the thinking process behind merc building the junior drivers on kimi?

i understand thinking kimi would become a good driver and should be invested in but building it up only for him seems insanity to me. mercedes surely has enough money to have a couple more drivers like ferrari and redbull so why cut paul aron (after what seemed like to me some good top3 championship results) and not even pick someone up so they could have options in case kimi needed more time or turned not to be what they hoped for?

No you’re totally right, it is insanity

Simply put, Toto Wolff kinda has an ego.

If you didn’t know, Kimi was discovered by the Minardi’s before he was even ten, who are also his managers. The Minardi’s got him in contact with Toto Wolff.

Toto has been in contact with Kimi, long before he ever joined the junior team. Kimi’s father would test Mercedes cars (not open wheel real cars) and the Wolffs and Antonelli’s were in pretty clear communication as to Where kimi would eventually go.

So he’s been watching this kid for years now and when he finally signs him (finally old enough to be signed) he keeps winning. Now, he’s got something to prove, that Merc can make drivers into greats, and he has generational talent in his team. Talent that he’s known since he was a child.

Money is no issue with Kimi. He is sponsored solely by Mercedes. While other teams (like Ferrari and Red Bull) have their drivers get their own sponsorships in order to pay for the racing fees with their academy paying a portion, Mercedes juniors - at least now that there’s only 4 of them - are all completely Mercedes funded.

Mercedes pays for everything Kimi wants to do in racing because they believe he’s that great of a driver. Because Toto tells them he’s that great of a driver. And then they see the results on track and are like “well that paid off let’s keep going with throwing money at him”

In Toto’s mind, there is no other option. Paul Aron is a great driver but he isnt the coach of Toto’s son’s karting team. Kimi is. Paul is good and fast behind the wheel but Toto didn’t watch him as a kid karting. He watched Kimi. Paul is frankly, F1 quality, but he didn’t have Giovanni Minardi whispering into Toto’s ear about how great the kid was when he was still in elementary school. Kimi did. That’s not a fault of Paul or Kimi’s it’s just the nature of how things worked out. Paul isn’t an option in Toto’s mind

And because Toto has deluded himself into thinking there’s no other option, and he’s quickly realizing that Seventeen Year Old still doing homework Kimi isn’t exactly ready. But he’s backed himself into a corner and he’s got too big of an ego to back out now.

So, he’s throwing Kimi into rigorous testing sessions and jumping him past F3 and telling the whole world he’s found the next whoever, and somehow somehow convincing the FIA to lower the superlicense age.

Toto Wolff’s massive ego has essentially caused all this imo. He saw a great driver several years ago. Was butthurt about losing Max to redbulll and decided to throw millions at this driver to try and just make the next Max himself. Hurting his other juniors in the process

(clarifying, i totally also think Kimi is a great driver, im a fan of his and I want to see him succeed. If his career is ruined by how Toto is fast tracking him, it’s Toto’s fault)

[maxverstappentv]

toto wolff a chronic fumbler of bad bitches btw... couldn't get his claws around a teenaged max verstappen and couldn't keep lewis hamilton around despite his loyalty to the team for over a decade😭

[shovlison]

Can we please have fewer races with Toto Wolff and more races with James Allison replacing him as acting TP?

[yuzuchupachups]

Whenever I thought about Lewis was soo happy seeing Team LH China in Shanghai which made Toto mad at him, I laughed so hard xjdhsnssm

Wait till next year Torger Christian Wolff🤗

[pickingupmymercedes]

And the thing is, Lewis has shown nothing but love. Even as Toto shit talks, he keeps quiet. Just let Toto tell on himself and whole year he's been doing just that - telling on himself, because everytime Toto opens his mouth to say something about Lewis, it's something from with a nasty spirit

He'd never say anything, because he fucking can't.

Like he could never even dream of saying a peep about Mercedes or Toto, or anything that is slightly negative without getting a HUGE backlash.

Like I said before (x) and I'll keep on saying. It's always Lewis who has to let it go.

When he’s snappy he should be more level headed, when he answers on track it’s mind games, when he talks he should take it on the chin, when he keeps quiet it’s all pr agenda.

[nneverlandzz]

Reporter: So Lewis leaves for Ferrari—

Toto: I WANTED HIM TO LEAVE. IT WAS ALL MY DECISION. HE SUCKS AND HE’S OLD AND WE DON’T NEED HIM. HE DOESNT LOVE ME THE WAY I LOVE HIM. KIMI IS THE FUTURE. LEWIS SHOULD HAVE STAYED. HE BROKE MY HEART.

[nearmike]

Now that we have fortunately escaped the ghost of disqualification, it is necessary to sit down and talk about the problem of Mercedes' incompetence. Yes, again.

This year the car is a wheelbarrow and the strategies are crap. We will live anyway. Although with very little joy in our pockets this season.

The thing we have to discuss is that IF indeed the car will improve as Torger has promised this is not sufficient. We cannot hide behind a wannabe spaceship car and a competent driver. We need to reflect on the countless mistakes of these years and NOT make them again. George has been deprived of two wins this year alone due to the incompetence of the team, yesterday's was probably the one and only chance to have something decent in their hands at the end of the season and they threw it away because as always they don't listen to a word.

Not to mention the fact that in two seasons, as a team, they have had two avoidable disqualifications and there was a chance it would become four after yesterday.

This team should stop just doing mea culpa's and actively start fixing the problems because if they can produce a proper car they can't continue to have such elementary levels of reading situations and, above all, they can't keep not trusting and disrespecting the drivers and their feedback. Lewis is already gone because of these failures, all this crap also only makes George lose confidence and faith in them.

The drivers are giving it their all, doing miracles and leaps and bounds, they don't deserve to be treated like this, Lewis deserves to have a decent end to the season and George deserves to go into 2025 without having totally lost faith in the team he will have to lead

Thoughts and prayers and George Russell's miracles cannot be the only working strategy of a team that claims to be ‘top’ when they manage to produce a working machine

[georgegraphys]

I find it funny how Toto Wolff casually disrespects George Russell at times but threw a tantrum at light speed the moment Christian Horner or other teams tried to approach George Russell

Besides, he always says "George Russell will continue to be our driver" 🤨🧐🤨🧐 Lots of confidence there

[roscoehamiltons]

seeing lewis on screen: 🥰🥰🥰🥵🥵🥵

seeing toto on screen: 🙄🙄🙄😡😡😡

[foul-milk]

i think Toto is literally insane and i don't mean that as a joke, but as in he actually has some kind of a cognitive disorder and he's unfit to function in society.

[pickingupmymercedes]

No seriously Ella 😭 Toto has this "I dont want you, but I also don't want anyone else to want you" sicko mentality 😭😭 at his big age????

And him dehumanizing Lewis- talking about shelf life 💀 I'm definitely out

It irks me sooo bad

And him talking for Lewis?! Like my dude, it's clear in your own speech you had no idea what was going on. 'we text a lot' and then 'his friend told me he was doing sports'

He had nooo fucking right to say Lewis was in a "okay place" when Lewis said himself he wasn't, when Lewis's friends, that were in the caribeans with him, said he wasn't.

That podcast was recorded way after Lewis opened up. Like, my dude listen to the person you say you're a friend. Really listen.

But then again, what can we really expect from someone who talked openly, on a book about Mercedes, about 'shelf life' of their biggest champion and how happy he was that he wouldn't need to have a tough conversation.

[nearmike]

You know what? P5 and P6 are ok, way more than I expected. Was honestly scared we would not make out of Q1 so...

God job George and Lewis you once again outqualified that wheelbarrow. Toto Wolff I hope you shit yourself