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Toto Wolff
Team principal & CEO, Mercedes
Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Toto Wolff (Team principal & CEO, Mercedes) talking, from an interview on Cheeky Pint published Oct 20, 2026.
What Toto Wolff said
Mercedes tested a clever loophole before putting it on the car
“we created another dimension with the steering wheel actually to push and to pull the steering wheel in a formula one car”
Toto Wolff14:48 A CFO’s warning led Wolff to exit his dot-com investments
“that he gave me from this one-hour flight from Bonn to Vienna was enough to look at our whole portfolio of nine investments.”
Toto Wolff33:08 F1 teams combine scarce-asset appeal with strong profits
“today few of us are generating very healthy profits you know in our business more than 30 percent EBIT margin.”
Toto Wolff50:04 F1 spots driver talent through pace, feel and teamwork
“there needs to be technical ability to set your car up in the right way.”
Toto Wolff2:33 Mercedes screens engineers for values as well as ability
“The extraordinary scientist or engineer that hasn't got the right values of humility, integrity, honesty, enthusiasm will have no future in the organization.”
Toto Wolff8:01 Mercedes stops engineering work that misses the lap-time target
“It needs to fundamentally contribute to the overall target of lab time rather than what we discussed before to the department's target.”
Toto Wolff24:10 Ownership gives Wolff room to run Mercedes entrepreneurially
“I'm responsible for my decisions and I'm very clear about that, but I can't be fired.”
Toto Wolff42:43 Wolff expects two or three people to share his role
“my job is going to be divided between two or three people that I'm vetting at the moment”
Toto Wolff1:09:18
The episode
Cheeky PintHow Toto Wolff built the most valuable team in F1
Toto Wolff · Team Principal & Co-Owner, Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team
11:59of 1:11:54 · Oct 20
