Why Was Toto Wolff So Angry?
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- Toto Wolff had an absolute stinker in the post FP1 Press Conference for this years #LasVegasGP. I'm not happy with his words, let's talk about it.
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Imagine this happened to Lewis. He would be fuming
💯
"All of you are playing a dangerous game" "Everybody has a target on their back" "NO MIKEY NO ZAT WAS SO NOT RIGHT"
He would be literally throwing things. I am a huge mercedes fan but man... this is a really, really myopic take from Toto. This is how you lose your fans
Toto is always one of the biggest jokes of F1 without realizing it.
Honestly it comes to a point where its going to hurt Mercedes brand image in total
Compare this to Toto reaction to the porpoising of last year and genuinely hard to believe it’s the same person. Honestly much respect to Fred cause if I was him I’d have literally walked out of there.
Lost all respect for toto when he asked for there to be no SC seconds after Mimi's accident in ad21
?? Firstly Toto and Fred are friends and if you actually watched the interview they were teasing each other the whole press conference. Secondly James Allison Zak brown hell even Fred himself it's unfair to label this weekend black card because of today. But you didn't watch the interview
Ferrari can also afford to do make such a move
If I were Fred I'd be threatening to park the cars for the race over being denied an allowance for the damages. Being forced to take a 10-position penalty on Sainz Sunday is just an insult, those penalties are designed to punish teams for being wasteful, instead they're being punished for the incompetence of the race organizers
@@DefinitelyNotEmma Ferrari is in the same boat as everyone else. Every team is operating at the budget cap
That statement about “nobody’s watching it in Europe anyway” just embarrassed himself and just exploited him as a money head there. Really embarrassed himself and has put an even darker cloud over this weekend. Let’s hope it’s just safe for the drivers
That sentence spoke volumes.
I wonder who was watching FP2 in America ( not just USA) at 2:30am local time? Was there tp press conference after fp2? Someone should ask him this question.
@@hipotenuza5663at least nobody on the tribunes as they had to leave 😅
@@TommoOnCZcams "no one reads wikipedia, no one from europe watches" he is straight up embarrassing
Let's wait for viewing figures. I think the European demo will be much lower. I only watched fp2 cos it was on later in the UK, I had planned to skip everything except quali and race. I usually watch every minute of coverage on every session but I think toto is right on this point
Toto just did his best "leave the multi-billion dollar company alone" impression
Businessman Toto was speaking, no Team Principal Toto
He sounded like the Elon musk fanboys
@@guiagaston7273they’re the worst
@guiagaston7273 Nah, those Elon/Tesla fanboys are fucking crazy lmao. I’ve literally seen some of them try to argue the extra weight is equivalent to having downforce lmao.
@@watersnortmoment3734not as insane as teamlh
Reminder this is the same man who demanded the whole grid had their ride heights raised because his own car wouldn't stop bouncing.
And when they thought they solved porpoising and tried to run low for performance, they get disqualified. Lol
And after that it was the so called flexing floor which elevated Red Bull compared to the competition even more in the middle of 2022. Since they lost there best engine and car they have been a salty shadow of themselves.
which lead to even more problems with their own car, the goddamn irony
Since Merc haven’t been dominating the sport I feel Toto has lost all composure or loses it very easily.
Easy to stay composed when you're winning!
Why not?
Toto has been losing his marbles trying to get his house together.
He's certainly wearing his heart on his sleeve a lot as of late
It's Lauda.
Ever since Lauda passed away and hasn't been there holding Toto's hand, he's steadily gotten worse.
The longer Mercedes isn't winning, the more i get convinced Niki was the driving force behind Mercedes.
Wow 2 of struggles after 8 years of winning. What a fraud he is 🤦🏾♂️
100% agree. I used to be a huge fan of that team but since Lauda’s passing they have slowly become less and less what they were.
I loved the Mercedes team that was breaking records and staying humble, pushing the limits of what was possible in the sport while staying focused on continuous improvement. I loved their culture of “no blame” and the way it showed in how the team went racing.
Unfortunately I don’t see that team anymore, and I miss them.
@@tomhutchins7495And to think it was all because of one fatal mistake by an incompetent race director to break him..toto I mean
@@Giratina575I think the 2022 reg change was what *really* broke him.
Michael Masi's decision definitely caused him to snap, but not being able to fight back on track in 2022 was when his behavior seemed to go sideways.
I remember Christian Horner talking once about how Toto inherited a well-oiled machine and then won eight WCC and seven WDC in a row; I'm not bringing this up to comment on Toto's success or work ethic, but on the fact that he isn't used to losing (let alone losing and being in no position to make a comeback) and doesn't seem like he's coping well with the stress/pressure/overall demoralization.
Toto did admit that himself tbf. I believe it was one of the interviews after Niki's death.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the only team not to say a single negative point about the Las Vegas GP is Mercedes. The contrast between Lewis & George's comments to the other drivers is jarring.
Simple, Mercedes is in the fight with Ferrari for place 2. This accident is in favour for Mercedes. So , why would they complain?
And the only team to be part owned by their Team Principal... 🤷♂️
the regime
@@rensvanderploeg1945 oh, understanding why, I get it. But what comes around, goes around.
But apparently Toto doesn't like to win on merit, either.
@@TommoOnCZcams Not according to Steiner's lawsuit.
Man, Toto is beginning to sound more and more delusional
Think the stress is getting to him, he doesn't look well.
I don't think he's handling these recent Mercedes struggles well. Not publicly anyway.
Considering he campaigned harder than just stop oil to change the rules around the ride height and porpoising last year for "safety" reasons just to try and catch up to Ferrari and red bull, shows how shallow and frail the man is, he's only pushing for changes that will ultimately give Mercedes an advantage
@@aaasss-lv6nlI mean... that is sort of his job though right? Like his job is to play the politics of the sport to benefit his team. That's the job of all the team principles and they do all do it.
@@TommoOnCZcamsThat actually means it’s a lot worse in private 🤣
People always present their best looks in public… so not handling it well publicly = even worse in private
I want more unscripted Tommo rants
I agree
Certainly, when he attacks the boss of his favourite driver!
@@rensvanderploeg1945Albon is his favorite. What are you saying?
Toto is entering Helmut Marko levels of “having the worst take imaginable”
Well he is Austrian
Let's get a Helmut, Villenuve, (Jos)Verstappen, Toto, Ralf Shumacher, etc. roundtable for some real spicy takes.
Now we have two batshit Austrians in the F1 media lmao
@@RyzardSchumacher sounds totally sensible on TV tho.
Havent heard him say anything controversial but too much praise for his nephew.
In fact, i like it when he is commentating on sky, because he a sensible technical expert and hasnt any understanding for social media degeneracy and calls it out.
@@Ryzard jos does not talk shit tho
And it cost two teams tremendous repair expenses and poor Carlos a 10 place grid penalty which is absolutely unfair.
100% with you on this. Odd response by a Team Principle.
*Principal
"Principles" are clearly something he doesn't have.
@@PiousMoltar thank you! I always confuse these.
It's insulting our intelligence imo
@@PiousMoltarteam principles?
It is absolutely laughable that people where paying tons of money to see this event and then they where kicked out because of some arbitrary timing bullshit. Toto has made himself quite the clown
His presser was before that was confirmed to be fair. But even so, his flippant approach to the whole situation at that time was cringe
@@TommoOnCZcams Fair enough then, but still showing such disregard towards european fans and those in attandance by saying it doesn't matter is pretty insane
@@maxmustermann6612 that too man, it was disrespectful to so many people in so many ways. It felt like he was ass-licking his bosses. I am not sure if he has one, but it sure felt like it.
@@eshansingh9951 his toung was in there really fuckin deep
That wasn't what he was asked about and this was before that even happened. I do agree though that some of what he said was highly questionable, and his tone definitely didn't seem justified.
Ever since Mercedes stopped winning, Toto has become more and more delusional and insufferable, even more than he was when Mercedes was winning. Between this, telling Lewis the car is bad when George was running Top 5 and Lewis 13th at Imola, and complaining about porpoising to get a Technical Directive, Toto just keeps taking Ls right now.
For the porpoising you are wrong. It was a safety issue which every drivers complained about it at least once
@@alexlacl8730So.. your telling me Mercedes needed the FIA to tell them to raise their very own car's ride height because they wouldn't do it on their own for the safety of their drivers?
Mind you, other teams were not proposing at the ride height of the time.
@@ViJt-oq5nq but that's still doesn't change that almost the whole grid complained about it which played a role about the TD
@@alexlacl8730 They complained about it and proceeded to fix it. That TD didn't go into effect until the start of the next season. By then most had a solution, except Mercedes.
@@alexlacl8730not after the first couple races. Toto was the one to campaign for the ride height changes constantly and make huge PR stinks about it when several other teams had largely tamed it. The Mercades car was by far the worst and he couldn't figure out how to compete without changing the rules - then his own proposed changes backfired too.
Toto: “How dare you, it’s nothing.”
Carlos & Vasseur: “Well allow me to retort.” ( With apologies to Quentin Tarantino.)
The path of the righteous driver is beset on all sides by the iniquities of unprepared tracks and the tyranny of greedy race promoters.
@@PeterTeal77And you will know my name is the drain cover when I rain my vengeance upon Ferrari
TT - Toto Tunberg - self-possessed phrase of the century: “How dare you….?” - a significant classical fallacy of a fallus
@@MRPaats it seems you massively overestimate your wittiness and intelligence.
Mercedes' downhill trajectory is absolutely hilarious, really makes you wonder how well he has been handling criticisms within in his own team.
Exactly! Vowles's answer was so different than Toto's
Could it be that he is no longer paid by Toto?
@@rensvanderploeg1945before he was not asked a single thing in the media
Absolutely sure that he has invested in the Las Vegas GP and he was trying to do damage control and also Lewis interestingly was also saying it's an amazing race and will be great for F1
Also when he spoke about the Jeddah Race he kept bashing and hating on it and not giving credit to the people who made it work yet is defending Las Vegas like his life depends on it
Hope he loses everything, horrible little man.
Both of them are slithering snake of shill, the thing they say shouldn't be taken without caution.
Would be hilarious if somehow Hamilton would win. I wonder if he would say that "we have the bast fans here"? When there would be like 100 fans at the grand stand. XD
I thought the same thing. He sounded more like a majority share holder in the event.
No Hamilton never praised this much
He just said that we should not criticize the track before trying it.
Was he wrong about jeddah ?
There was litteraly an explosion just near of the track and he didnt wanted to race here.
Not the same situation man you are trying to criticize Lewis without to understand his point or anything
Such a bizarre reaction for anyone let alone a team principal. Hes genuinely the only person ive seen outside of the organisers actually hyping this up. When you have empty grandstands and drivers not liking the track something has to change
Sponsors are not in the grandstands. Simple or not?
If this was Lewis it’d be a completely different story. It would be “you’re in the shit, and I’m coming after you” all over again. Not a fan of the Merc Cult but Toto is taking the Merc insanity up to 100 with this
i dont think he would. He doesnt care about the driver, hes a business man first and foremost
@@thebateman761Lewis IS his main business, have you paid attention to the season so far?
@@thebateman761He would have exploded like never seen before.
@@drmaulana2600 If Lewis was his business, he would've taken 2021 to court. Best beleive if that happened to Max, Horner would've asembled the avengers.
Toto is a business man before anything.
I just ~love~ how Toto thought that "it's happened before" concerning the drain cover is a good excuse. If it's happened before they should have known that drain covers coming loose is a valid risk, they should have vetted them accordingly, and should have some data or information of what does not work in terms of making them stay put. Ever heard the phrase "learning from your mistakes"?
This will be grim but imagine if Grosjean had died at Bahrain. What would be the reaction? "It's not a biggie, there were death before in F1. Nobody will talk about tomorrow anyway". What a f*cking clown.
A driver dies? Ah, it's happened before
Yes!!! People using Baku as a excuse. Not a good one for me!!!
World War 3? Who cares, there have been 2 already
Welcome to seeing the real Toto. When money comes into play, who cares what happens, and that's how F1 and Toto as a whole feel.
Glad to see you covering this - Toto's behaviour is bizarre. As others have said, if this had happened to Hamilton or Russell then he would have sung a very different tune.
With this kind of mental approach from Toto you know it’s not really surprising Mercedes has been underperforming.
You get the sense that like a spoiled only child he doesn’t know what to do when things don’t go to plan.
I hope people eventually remember he walked in on Mercades the year they blew up, as ross brawn left.
To be fair the Vegas GP has been an absolute disaster so far.
Even though the cars have only been on track for 100 minutes
The only US GP that deserves it's place on the calendar is Austin. Miami and Vegas should go
@@DefinitelyNotEmmaThe US is too big to only have one race. It would be like having one race in Europe. The problem is the awful street tracks when there’s a wealth of fantastic tracks in the country
@@duncachinoahimiha3889It's not nearly as popular in the US though. They have 3 races in the US and none in Africa, that's not fair.
@@wessel04 And many great European races have not made it on the calendar either, like Hockenheim. The US and Middle Eastern region get a lot more attention than they really should.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Tommo this pissed off in the years I’ve watched him. Totally justified too, Carlos could’ve been hurt or worse and Toto is just chatting business. Disgusting honestly.
Absolutely shameful, but then again I’d expect nothing less from Toto
Toto put a black eye on the sport with these comments even more than the actual happenings did.
Good analysis, I think your take is spot on. I like Toto too, but it’s undeniably a bizarre, emotional reaction. Why not just say “look, clearly there are some growing pains and this was an unfortunate situation, but I’m happy with where the sport is going and I hope people see the value in this race, it’s a massive undertaking” ?? Is he defensive because they vetoed the penalty waiver for Carlos? I think people are too overly harsh about the Vegas GP in general, but Toto way overreacted…
Be honest, it is a shit track.
Absolutely right and well said
wouldn't surprise me if toto payed for it to be denied
@@manuelschurig2266 No need for paying, it is the rule at the moment. It would give them lots of positive publicity if Mercedes would state that we need a change of rules for cases like this and they would propose to start now.
Spot on.
As an American that has followed F1 for about 5yrs (before DTS), how am i supposed to sell the sport to my friends and family? i was so close to doing the whole - once in a lifetime - trip out to Vegas for this and i'm SOOO glad i didn't.
i still have SOME hope the weekend gets better, but right now its just sad and disappointing.
Good news though, you can take that would-be Vegas trip and take vacations to Italy and then Belgium for those two races and still save money instead.
Save up your dollars and come to the British Grand Prix (purchase a package)🥳I can't guarantee the weather so pack for the Tropics the Arctic or possibly a Monsoon.😎🥶💦 You will see racing as it's supposed to be despite the best efforts of Liberty 💩🤬
Then finish the trip in London if budget is an issue pick a hotel on the outskirts but make sure it is next to/near a tube station to access all of the sights. Don't hire a car for London you'll never find anywhere to park and you'll be overtaken by people in wheelchairs.
Agree totally with this take Tommo. I was pretty surprised. And that last comment about no one watching in European time..but he's not considering that the people who paid those inflated ticket prices for the session get screwed royally.
Well said Tommo, The fact that he got that angry over the comment and even bit back a little at the reporter. Put Lewis in that situation and he would sing a different tune. It was almost like he was kissing up to liberty media. And the fact that James vowles came to his defense just had me rolling my eyes. Of course your former employee would have your back. Toto is the only one with that opinion.
If it happened to a Mercedes or Lewis he would have been questioning the security of the track overall
Everyone focuses on whether Max or Lewis crumble under pressure when Toto is really the only one affected by it
6:54 I agree with you Tommo. I also reckon that Mercedes have lost enough prestige and money this year already, and Toto doesn't want this incident to make a further impact on that. Also, how dare he?! Real fans DO get up at stupid times to watch their NOW TV or F1 apps etc which they have paid good money for or perhaps, worse, have to miss out on if they're at work. Watching in the cold and dark while trying not to wake the sleeping family is not a fun thing to do but a lot of us do this when tracks aren't on European times. We know the actual finishing order of P1 means nothing because the drivers have to try out various scenarios with their cars BUT from watching this race we can see which drivers can't keep on track, what tricky corners to watch out for, the likelihood of passing on track, the effect of the weather on the racing surface, how our particular favourite driver/team handle themselves on the day - all sorts of thingsl. It's all F1 racing after all. So, you are wrong Toto, P1 is watched by many true fans.
Not true
Yeah insert Lewis into Carlos' car and he'd be singing quite a different tune. Outrageous and unsurprising.
Tommo thank you so much for doing this video. I was really surprised by toto's reaction and I thought I was alone. Thank you for pointing this out and using your platform for good
"Give credit to the people who has done an awesome job" - Toto...Who is seen fuming and smashing headphones in Abu dhabi 2021
I can't believe they gave Carlos a penalty... It wasn't his fault!
It wasn’t fair that Max’ tire blew up due to Pirelli’s incompetence but here we are. It’s chalked up to the ‘bad luck clause’ in the regs…look for it it under ‘well that’s the breaks’ paragraph.
@@mamavswildMax's crash was a racing incident, it could have happened to lewis, checo, or anyone else. What happened with Carlos was incompetence from the race organization.
@@Crisandf1that could have happened to any car also
@@Smc-gm2nx True
Toto gets way too much credit for Merc’s success. We are now seeing Toto’s true abilities as a TP. People need to realize Ross Brawn, Schumacher and co. did all the work before Toto got there. Ross is a technical genius who put the team together and directed everything. Michael as a team leader set the dev direction of the car.
Toto is a finance guy who parachuted into the team in ‘13, pushed Brawn out at the end of the year and got all the credit. Toto was new to Merc in ‘13 and had not experience running a team and Brawn was still Team Principle. All the dev on the 2014 car was done before Toto took over, he had no part in it. That’s why Merc are in the position they are in today. Most of that team is now gone and Toto had zero experience building a team. He also has no technical training and is at the mercy of the engineers for direction. Whereas Brawn directed them.
By contrast, Horner's been the head honcho of Red Bull from day dot; wet from Jaguar's gutters and turned the team into a title winning outfit in five years. He even saw through Red Bull's rut in the start of the 1.6L Turbo-HY engines, being a thorn in Merc's side amidst Ferrari's implosions, all while helping Honda turn their reputation around from laughing stock to serious threat in engine development.
This interview was the interview of someone that is personally invested in this event. Not just with the team, it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s got some personal investments outside the team in the event itself.
Toto is just happy that Carlos got the 10 place penalty so merc can cling to their spot in the constructors
Toto Wolff when his team isn’t carried to a 1s advantage with their engine is the funniest team principal I’ve ever seen
Mercedes was still winning since 2017 despite their engine power wasnt the biggest advantage.
haha I love this. I dont think ive ever seen tommo this upset. Id love to see more of these quick video's about hot topics
When Tommo gets fired up and says ‘he’s talking completely out of his ass’ 😂😂😂 funniest thing I’ve heard all day thanks for the laughs Tom 👏
On a more serious note completely agree with your points. Toto Must have been up past his bedtime because mans can’t think straight, thoughts are all over the place.
Liberty hasn't grown the sport, they've grown the show.
I love how everything was scheduled so that practices would happen when the European and Eastern North American viewers are asleep so that hiccups could be covered up.
But now everyone’s woken up to a complete PR horror show anyways 😂
as a merc fan, idk what to say bruh
Toto is a good team principal and and a good team owner , but trying to be both at the same time is not only near impossible but it also affects the team negatively . Team principal is a function where you need to put the best interest of the team foward even if it means conflict with the owner . Toto is only fighting himself and he's unfortunately great at it
That was a bless you called Toto out on this one, and rightly so, right out of pure rage! I loved it, it speaks tons of real passion for the sport side of 'it' (cannot force myself to write 'the Las vegas grand prix'... for Crying out loud!!)
loved this, i feel like a lot of fans 100% agree with what you're saying
Agree with everything you said Tommo, the fact that masses of fans call Horner out for his "tantrums" then Toto comes out with this, and it's far worse than anything I've seen any other tp do
New standards!? If failing drain covers are the new standards, I don't want the new standards.
Come on, what is wrong with driving around a bunch of Casinoos?
There’s something special about an angry Tommo and I’m here for it.
Massive respect to you Tommo for speaking up like this, very much needed after a day like this.
100% agreed. Shouldn't they be on top of this sort of thing by now? Also, what's with the "They won't even see this in Europe"? Is he saying to Americans that this doesn't matter because Europe won't see it?
No, this doesn't matter because both championships are already decided 😂.
I bet Fred Vasseur wants to punch his face really hard during that interview 😂
Completely agree with you, and the "this could've been dangerous" quote is just insane. This WAS dangerous, this COULD have killed someone, imagine if the thing comes through the seat or even is just on the track for the next car to scoop up. 😢
Awesome stuff mate. Good perspective on this. I look at this outburst a bit differently now. 😊
It's the perfect strategy to reverse the trend of americanizing f1.
Whether by design or councidence, this is perfect 😂
Thank you for this video. This perfectly encapsulates what a lot of the people that watch F1 feel. It's not that anybody questioned the efforts of the people that put this race together. Heck even locals have had to bear the brunt of the changes and inconveniences. To sound like the floor of an F1 car being ripped off partially by a drain cover was a small incident is disgraceful. What if it was one of the W14 cars that was damaged and ended up resulting in a penalty. Imagine the outcry from TeamLH. Imagine the F1 hate. This is hipocracy at the highest level from this man.
Making sure drain hole covers are not flying off street circuits is something basic that everyone knows needs to be taken care of before the GP, makes you think what other safety issues like a dangerous pit lane exit they haven’t addressed properly, hopefully we don’t need find out the worst way positive
Tommo is FIRED UP. This is the first time I think I’ve ever heard you speak above a whisper 😂
Toto Wolff is a black eye on the sport 😂
Toto Wolff is the real black eye for the sport...
Good vid! I was very angry today and this shows that I wasn't the only one. good work keep it up! You have my support!
I’m feeling like there’s some sort of secret contract that all of F1 officials had to sign, that made it so if they said anything bad about Vegas they would die or something
In seriousness, this has been absolutely appalling and I am completely in agreement with you.
The 2023 Vegas GP is looking to find its place among the 2005 US GP and 2021 Belgian GP as one of the worst in history.
You hit the nail on the head Tommo, I normally rate Toto but he was acting weird all press conference
To be honest Lewis is as well
@@Lanse1984 Oh shut it, Lewis has been chill all weekend
@@Nasherwood sleeping with Toto you mean?
@@Lanse1984no
If I was a Mercedes mechanic I’d feel very aggrieved that I’m having to stay up even longer with the risk that the track might just wreck a car and cause even more work, and the boss is popping off that this isn’t a big deal
I watch your videos for years and they are pretty good. Turns out angry Tommo is amazing. Such a concise and great video - I really enjoyed this. Thanks
I agree 100%. It is a disgrace that fans got kicked out before fp2 and have been told that there will be no refund of the good money that they paid for 8 mins of fp1.
And rumour has it that 9 teams voted pro Sainz not getting a penalty, but one .. Who's in the fight with Ferrari. I wonder who is that 🤷♀️
If you watched the whole press conference, he was defending F1 from a troll reporter. Answering one reporter then a 2nd chimed in trying to get a headline.
Defending by.. basically confirming what those troll reporter doing??
Even if we take that into account Toto's answer is still full of crap
There are so so many examples of the same gentleman speaking out of the opposite side of his face, when his drivers were the ones seemingly treated unfairly by conditions, circumstances, or the FIA ...It is pretty startling to hear him speak this way, when you know for a fact that if Carlos had been Lewis last night he would sound very very very very different.
if Toto wants to nullify that incident then he should've fought for nullifying the consequence of it as well. sheer diplomacy
Totally agree. He's definitely speaker as an owner not a team principal or someone concerned for safety in the sport.
I'm not sure what other investments Toto is making as a businessman, but it could be that they are in businesses either directly connected to the LV GP or orbiting around it (I'm just speculating here). He spoke like a true businessman there... at least that was my impression when I read his statement this morning.😀
Ah yes the new standard is a track that fails in four minutes, destroys a car, and could have injured a driver.
I like this worked up energy Tommo 🤣
It was always difficult for me to take Toto seriously. Partly because he's spouting nonsense (at least) 70% of the time and partly because he looks like Gestapo officer straight out of few WW2 shows I watched as a kid.
He really is a full package.
Made me chuckle
RPM alt account lol
OK, he is also Austrian, but normally Austrians are pretty cool. Every country has got their exceptions.
"Her Flick" from Allo allo 😂
I've not been impressed with some of Toto's media games in the past but this was just bizarre.
I am a big Merc fan and a big toto fan. But I agree with every point you make. I was just as upset about the official statement focusing on money and fans instead of driver safety
Love to see you talking so passionately about the issue. Really great video
Toto only cares about his own drivers, 2022 proved that, he almost sounds like he is sucking up to people. Toto is financially invested into this mess in a way and he gets very on edge when this clownshow is exposed.
People often forget that Toto is a literal billionaire, he seems very out of touch when it comes to money.
Thank you for using your platform and your reach to call out his stupidity and his ignorance on this matter! Your community is 100% behind you here!
The locals get screwed again. The ones that couldn't afford a race ticket but wanted to be a part of Formula 1 and Las Vegas's first race with this design, they would've been there for FP1. Can you imagine being a local that had to deal with all of the construction and chaos, spend all that money, go to FP1, and then you can't even watch it. I'd be so mad. Also, Toto Wolff doesn't seem to understand that for F1 fans in the USA, races are regular at like 6 am. We're used to getting up early or staying up late to watch the sport.
This was so outta pocket. I hope Toto can come to his senses a bit. That's a silly stance for a principal to have.
toto is 20 points behind ferrari and carlos getting a 10 place penalty is a gift from the organisation . i just checked the rats from skysport on fb , not 1 article about it , how different it was when there was a vehicle on track in japan . wolf is lower then low , and now we all saw it
You mean 20 points ahead?
20 points ahead
I don't think that's a "Mercedes stakeholder" attitude as much as it's an "applying for a senior management position at F1/FIA" attitude.
He might've gone in too deep, with a very confrontational and agressive tone, but even brown and vowels said something to the same effect, focusing more on how they should credit the work that has been put in despite the mistakes, how the bulk of the event is still to come, how the organizers can (and in the end did) fix the problem, as they have done in baku and monaco, and how the race shouldn't be scrapped because of this.
Fred was even careful when suggesting they should've run a junior formula before the main event, since that implies that they would've been exposed to the danger instead. You have to consider the difficulty in scrutiniering that part of the track, considering it is one of the busiest roads on earth.
Don't forget at the end of the day these are billionaires and millionaires just trying to sell a product to you that is heavily declining in quality.
Toto is a 🤡. And bad for the sport F1 💯
A billionaire saying "oh it's just FP1" is a spit in the face to the fans who saved up and paid what may be massive money to them just to go see 5 minutes of FP1.
Yes, mistakes happen, but putting drivers in danger and leaving fans hanging is something F1 should take account of and fix.
Yessssss we love a genuinely pissed off Tommo
Toto’s frustration is the culmination of days and weeks of all the fans and drivers complaining about a track and venue when nothing had even occurred yet. The manhole problem has happened before in F1. It’s a street track. The overreaction and absurd amount of be negativity and anti-American sentiments leading into the start of this GP by “fans” and podcasters is immature at best. Toto never discounted the danger or seriousness of the car damage.
Exactly, all of the media has been so incredibly dramatic if i was putting in long hours and hearing nothing but negativity to this point id snap too
Was looking for this comment among all the others ignoring this context. Even I was getting annoyed about it and I don't even use twitter/reddit.
@@skewie88 same im sick of everyone overreacting. Honestly these reporters are like snakes, and if he actually showed the full interaction of the reporter to toto the reporter interrupted his response to disagree with him which is disrespectful, thats when toto snapped. Context is key no one seems to care for it
I don’t understand why this whole incident is being blown out of proportion, did everyone suddenly forget that this thing had happened in the past, for example grosjean in sepang 2017 and Russell in 2019 at Baku. Yes it’s a big safety issue but it’s not like this thing hasn’t happened in the past
Yeah but that’s the point it shouldn’t happen coz it’s happened in the past!
It's the fact that it's another blemish added to a whole list of problems that are already apparent before the weekend happened.
The issue is not the accident, it's not just the drain cover (like Tommo said)
Is the attitude taken because of it
Roll back to both Grosjean's and Russell's episodes and neither of them were penalized for repairs triggered by the same issue that happened to Sainz and Ocon
So many money invested in a venue that wasn't inspected properly before the activities begun not only brought this as a consequence, but it also made the session delayed and made the virtually huge amount of people who went to see FP1 to be sent out the track for FP2, which happened *at 2 am*
Things happening in the past is not a excuse for things being blatantly acceptable as they were today
But that's my view on it
Ive seen many dumb people say what you just said. How does that make it ok. If anything it shows the level of negligence having this happen many times before you would think thets one of the first priorities of prepping a track is to secure the damn manhole covers. Also, the other times were not in Vegas with all eyes of the world watching and all fans kicked out of the track after selling their kidney to be there to experience it.
I remember how they were against Jeddah 2022 and i find it funny when he defended LV GP
Great so see you call this out!