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Team boss Toto Wolff spoke of succession
planning at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Friday, and
acknowledged he could hand over the baton in the not too distant
future for someone else to run with.
"I’ve spent quite some time thinking about it and also involving
the leadership within MGP (Mercedes GP) and we haven’t
identified the structure for the future so I can’t tell you if
it’s a year, two or three," he said when asked for a time frame.
Wolff referred to a previous "great handover of
responsibilities" on the technical side as an example of how to
retain knowhow and leadership while avoiding a bottleneck of
talent.
"Looking forward into the next few years it would very much make
me proud to see a team principal coming up and taking over from
me and doing a better job than I could have done at that time,"
said Wolff.
"This is a really interesting project for me and I don’t feel I
would let the team down, I’m a shareholder and I will stay with
the team."
The Austrian said he and Mercedes' parent company Daimler had
agreed on him staying in a different function such as CEO or
chairman.
"Daimler has very much given me the choice but before me
transitioning into a new role, I need to make sure that somebody
else is doing the 23 races and I can enjoy myself in front of a
Zoom screen," said Wolff.
Mercedes have won 10 of 12 races this season, and started every
one on pole position. They are 209 points clear of second-placed
Red Bull with 176 points to be won after Sunday.
Lewis Hamilton is also heading for his seventh drivers' title,
but cannot yet clinch that.
The Briton has yet to agree a contract beyond this year, with
Wolff saying he expected talks to start after the titles were
decided.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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