Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff is fully supporting his wife Susie as she filed a criminal complaint against the FIA following the past winter investigation.
Toto Wolff praised Susie by saying that she is a strong woman, and always “follows through on her convictions and values”. Moreover, he added that the lack of transparency cannot be accepted and should be of utmost importance.
“First of all, Susie, is a strong woman,” Wolff told Sky. “She doesn’t take anything from anyone and, as always, follows through on her convictions and values – and that’s the case here.
“She’s very unemotional about it and pragmatic. She feels wrong was done, and the court needs to hear that. Nothing’s going to bring her off that path. That’s how her character is.
“And, on the other side, it is the case and the fact that all year now we have been talking about cases of [lack of] transparency and various other factors that are just not great. And this is what Lewis referred to.
“We should talk about the greatness of the sport and where we are, and not the other stuff, but it needs to be pointed to.”
The Mercedes team principal continued by saying that Susie “will go all the way in” with the process, as people need to take responsibility for what happened.
“I think Susie, like I said before, she’s started that process many months ago. [She] has done it very diligently, as far as I’m concerned, and will go all the way in.
“And I think it matters for her most to find out what happened. And [that] people take accountability and responsibility, and things are not brushed under the carpet.
“I think we as a sport need to do that in all areas, whether it is Susie’s case, or whether some cases with the other teams.
“I think this sport has such a massive platform, we’re doing so well, and maybe sometimes we need to take it out of the, let’s say, jurisdictions of our sport into the real world and see what it does.”