Toto Wolff

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484 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 16 Jan

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team) · 4 Dec 2024 podcast

That's right.

It was like entitlement. I'm guessing though, because it was so disputable that to even say that sentence would have felt like it could have tipped it. I don't know. We would have said it.

Yeah, and I entered the sport through Drive to Survive. Did you? Yes. Really? Okay. I was like, this is boring. They don't pass each other. What is this racing? Who cares? And then when I learned what's happening technically, I was like, oh, this is way more in-depth and interesting than it seems on the surface. And I think the drama helped the sport also.

We don't know really why.

Charles is a supermodel. Danny was the cutest guy in the world.

There's only a couple duds in the whole group out of 20 guys. That's...

There's something for everyone.

Now, that was one of my questions. I'm keeping you too long. Don't worry. We were on the phone for quite a while. You're a very smart person. You're also very incentivized because you own a third of the team. You're experiencing this from a lot of different viewpoints. You're a team principal. You got to win. But you're also an owner.

And so I think you naturally saw that when Liberty Media came in and bought this and they expressed this goal of making the entertainment more present and the sport, but bringing the entertainment up. I've heard you talk about it. And you're like, initially, we were like, that's a little scary. But I think you're a business owner. And this worked. I mean, fuck.

The first time I went to COTA, the race weekend was 120,000. And it was 440 last weekend.

It 4X'd. Yeah. Oh. So you, at some point in the first year, Mercedes and Ferrari didn't participate in Drive to Survive.

It was a blessing in disguise for the sport because so many other personalities were featured. True. We wouldn't have had Danny. We wouldn't have had Gunter. We wouldn't have had Esteban.

Yeah, it was a blessing. We got to learn a lot about a lot of other drivers. But at some point, you're smart enough and incentivized enough that you go, okay, great. So I get it. This entertainment thing is kind of working. And now you too have to assume a character in this soap opera. And I'm wondering, A, how easy that was for you to take on.

I've been to races and been in the paddock and watched you walk around. You're a full-blown movie star at that race. You know, you're on your scooter and people are excited. Having to be a character in the soap opera, how has that been?

Yeah, that's hard though. It's super hard. It's tempting.

I could show you right now exchanges between me and Brad Pitt talking about you. Seriously. I'm going to take full credit for this in front of you. He and I love MotoGP. I watch Drive to Survive. I text him, watch this documentary. Text me when you've finished. I know it'll be within 24 hours. He texts me in 16 hours. This is incredible. I'm so in. Next is he befriends Louis.

I'm learning that he's going and hanging out with Louis. And then I said, yeah, but let's talk about Toto. And he said, listen, I have this text. This is going to kill you. Toto's also a great dancer. Yeah. Where did he get that from? He was somewhere and he saw you dancing.

Toto's also a great dancer. I'm like, oh, fuck, this guy's got it all. Wow. Brad Pitt is completely enamored by you. That's a very weird turn of events at 45.

Well, this has been an insane pleasure. My very last thing is, Monica has only liked a single car. I try to get her interested in cars and she does not care. She likes a single car, the Mercedes 300 SL.

Toto has one.

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