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Toto Wolff

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1378 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

Also, it sucks you were on the inside of it, so it's not as pleasurable. On the outside, what a year. What a year, yeah. What a fucking year.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

Also, it sucks you were on the inside of it, so it's not as pleasurable. On the outside, what a year. What a year, yeah. What a fucking year.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

Right. I've been in many fights on my own. I have a single question about that event.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

Right. I've been in many fights on my own. I have a single question about that event.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

Right. I've been in many fights on my own. I have a single question about that event.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

The most improbable thing happened, which is in 2021, Max and Lewis entered the final race tied at 235.5 points. Something like this. It's .5. Impossible. Same points. And a half point somehow. Add up the improbability that he has 2,500 employees making a car. Red Bull has 2,000 employees. You have all those variables, different designs, two different human beings.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

The most improbable thing happened, which is in 2021, Max and Lewis entered the final race tied at 235.5 points. Something like this. It's .5. Impossible. Same points. And a half point somehow. Add up the improbability that he has 2,500 employees making a car. Red Bull has 2,000 employees. You have all those variables, different designs, two different human beings.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

The most improbable thing happened, which is in 2021, Max and Lewis entered the final race tied at 235.5 points. Something like this. It's .5. Impossible. Same points. And a half point somehow. Add up the improbability that he has 2,500 employees making a car. Red Bull has 2,000 employees. You have all those variables, different designs, two different human beings.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

They're finishing every single qualifying within a hundredth of a second. There's too many variables. It's impossible. Now you add in through all this dramatic season, there were points taken away. There were laps given back. There was judgment calls. They land at 235.5. It's not possible. The race goes on. Max is not going to win. He is behind three cars that have been lapped.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

They're finishing every single qualifying within a hundredth of a second. There's too many variables. It's impossible. Now you add in through all this dramatic season, there were points taken away. There were laps given back. There was judgment calls. They land at 235.5. It's not possible. The race goes on. Max is not going to win. He is behind three cars that have been lapped.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

They're finishing every single qualifying within a hundredth of a second. There's too many variables. It's impossible. Now you add in through all this dramatic season, there were points taken away. There were laps given back. There was judgment calls. They land at 235.5. It's not possible. The race goes on. Max is not going to win. He is behind three cars that have been lapped.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

There's an accident. The race goes under a safety car. So everyone's bunched up. Now, here's my question. As I understand it, and I could be totally wrong, they unlap cars that have been passed. So the person between Max and Lewis, they're number one and two, but there's three cars in there, but they're in spots 18, 19, 20.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

There's an accident. The race goes under a safety car. So everyone's bunched up. Now, here's my question. As I understand it, and I could be totally wrong, they unlap cars that have been passed. So the person between Max and Lewis, they're number one and two, but there's three cars in there, but they're in spots 18, 19, 20.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

There's an accident. The race goes under a safety car. So everyone's bunched up. Now, here's my question. As I understand it, and I could be totally wrong, they unlap cars that have been passed. So the person between Max and Lewis, they're number one and two, but there's three cars in there, but they're in spots 18, 19, 20.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

So the rules, as I understand them, is that under a safety car, the cars in between are allowed to unlap themselves. So they're allowed to go out in front of the lead car and join the back of the pack where they belong.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

So the rules, as I understand them, is that under a safety car, the cars in between are allowed to unlap themselves. So they're allowed to go out in front of the lead car and join the back of the pack where they belong.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

So the rules, as I understand them, is that under a safety car, the cars in between are allowed to unlap themselves. So they're allowed to go out in front of the lead car and join the back of the pack where they belong.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

But what's really weird is that they don't unlap them right away. That to me is like, this is the problem. It's not like who did what. It's like, they should have been unlapped right away. They weren't. So four laps goes by and then they make a decision with one lap left to let them unlap. Max is on brand new tires. Lewis is on 13 lap old tires.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

But what's really weird is that they don't unlap them right away. That to me is like, this is the problem. It's not like who did what. It's like, they should have been unlapped right away. They weren't. So four laps goes by and then they make a decision with one lap left to let them unlap. Max is on brand new tires. Lewis is on 13 lap old tires.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toto Wolff (team principal of Mercedes F1 team)

But what's really weird is that they don't unlap them right away. That to me is like, this is the problem. It's not like who did what. It's like, they should have been unlapped right away. They weren't. So four laps goes by and then they make a decision with one lap left to let them unlap. Max is on brand new tires. Lewis is on 13 lap old tires.