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

Could I win from a place that's not fear-based? And that's a leap of faith. I'm like midway there. I'm not where you're at. I don't fully trust that without some bit of cancerous rumination, I'll actually be motivated. But you have two years to get over this.

A lot of these different tech gurus have this built-in moment in their schedule. For some people, it's like four days a month or it's a week a month or it's a month a year. Bill Gates' reading week. Yeah. takes that stack of books and he sits in his little cabin and he allows himself to stop staring at the thing in front of him and get that kind of wider perspective. You can't really do that.

Or how would you do that? Because you have 23 races and then...

That makes sense. And I relate to that. I need a certain level of distraction where you're right. The subconscious is driving the car. I'm not actually driving the car. It's just happening. And that's the perfect amount of activity that allows me to wander in my head because I'm doing something. So I'm kind of liberated to do that.

My dad lost everything too, by the way. My dad was rich, then poor. Filed bankruptcy three times before he died.

Do you know what that fucking garage is all about? Is that I wanted the cool BMX bike. Kids had the cool BMX bike, the GT, the Haro, the Hutch, and I didn't. Compensation mechanism. Yeah, and I wanted that fucking bicycle, and this is the bicycle. I'm still healing the wound of the bicycle.

The problem with those cars is impossible to work on, but continue. I love them. That's Miami Vice. That's Miami Vice. Ground effects.

930. That was exactly. Yeah, slant nose. Oh, baby. I do think when you don't have a dad around for some of these pivotal rites of passage, you have to go get a lot of these exterior things to comfort yourself that you are becoming a man. Do you relate to any of that stuff? The masculinity portion?

Yeah. That's great.

I think that's kind of rare. Is it? I think so. And I don't know what part is American and what part is your culture and being European, but I don't know America, you know, it's like do this, make this, be this, be special, be unique, be individual. And then you do those things and what you kind of feel like is, oh yeah, and all I've accomplished is I've kind of alienated myself from everyone.

It doesn't feel as fun as I thought it was going to feel like. You start questioning the whole promise of it, but I'm delighted that's not happening for you.

Really quick, who are you going to show? Was there a list of actual people or is this an idea of people?

I completely relate to that. Yeah, as I say, you shouldn't ever compare yourself to someone else. You should only compare yourself to previous versions of yourself. The things I didn't fantasize about, that I've gotten, because I've gotten a lot of stuff I wasn't even bold enough to fantasize about.

And those things are really fun because I didn't have a fantasy and an expectation of how I was going to feel and how much I was going to like myself or what kind of self-esteem I would have. I didn't have anything built on top of this fantasy. So the things that have happened that were unexpected, now those I really can enjoy.

I don't want to downplay how much joy I do get out of this crazy privileged existence I've had.

It's more of a cliche. The next five-foot-tall Indian princess? Of course, yeah.

Now, I do have some questions about how you got to where you ended up. There's a couple of gaps in what I can learn about you that are curious to me. Like one is you go at 18 and you see Formula One or you go to some racing. No, not Formula One. Okay, but you go to some racing event and you go, I want to do this. Now, 18 is too late for you to do that. Much. We know this.

You had to be karting at six. So how on earth did you end up racing Formula Ford without the karting background?

I manifested that, yeah. Just enough horsepower to crash into a tree.

Masculine, yes.

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