‘I like ego but it needs to be channelled’: Toto Wolff on how he harnessed Hamilton’s ability

‘I register no difference between any single employee and the drivers’: Toto Wolff with the Mercedes team after winning the constructors championship in 2019 Photograph: Charles Coates/Getty Images

F1 Racing Confidential: Inside Stories from the World of Formula One, peers under the bonnet to reveal the sport’s characters from big names such as Toto Wolff and Lando Norris to the unsung engineers and strategists who keep the show on the road

‘One of the advantages and perhaps disadvantages of my character is that I take everything personally,” Toto Wolff says. “When I joined, the team became my tribe; it was all-encompassing. Every day, the minute I woke up to the minute I fell asleep it was all I did. Caring about the people, about what we needed to be in order to be successful.”