“Schumi is immediately in the car if something happens”

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Since big money and social media have taken over the GP circus, team bosses have also become restless. Your choice of words has been changed out of respect for the major sponsors.

There used to be bosses like Ken Tyrrell (†77), Colin Chapman (†54), Bernie Ecclestone (92), Frank Williams (†79), Teddy Mayer (†73), Ron Dennis (75), Walter Wolf (83 ) , Luca di Montezemolo (75) or even Peter Sauber (turns 80 in October) more open.

Today, this species with a clear opinion in the paddock is almost extinct. The exceptions: Franz Tost at Alpha Tauri, Otmar Szafenauer at Alpine, Günther Steiner at Haas and Toto Wolff at Mercedes. If you ask clear questions, you will always get a useful answer.

Like in Melbourne by the Viennese Toto Wolff (51). In the case of his perennial “pit shadow” Mick Schumacher (24), Wolff makes it clear: “If one of our drivers gets Covid or gets injured, Mick will be in the Mercedes! Period, end of discussion!” Schumi junior has never been in a Mercedes. Wolff: “We are trying to get an old car ready for him as soon as possible.”

When Hamilton dropped out due to Corona in 2020, Mercedes took Russell away from Williams for a race (Bahrain), leaving its own reserve drivers (de Vries, Vandoorne) in the lurch.

Wolff: “This time Mick would drive. I’m looking for the little one. All I can say is that his parents did nothing wrong in raising him. And I argue that if Michael had accompanied his son during the two Haas years, Steiner would not have dared to treat Mick like that! »

Source : Blick