Why Mercedes won’t leap into choosing a Wolff successor
You might think Toto Wolff's job is easy - but it isn't, and that's why he can't hand over the Mercedes team principal role to someone else quickly, even though he wants to move on, says Stuart Codling.
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Knowing when to move on from a position of power is a principle precious few people who hold such stations have grasped throughout history. At the time of writing, one Donald J Trump is making a conspicuous pig's ear of it. Knowing how to manage an orderly transfer of this authority to one's anointed successor represents another order of difficulty - after all, Henry VIII motored through six wives trying to produce a male heir.
Mercedes F1 team principal and shareholder Toto Wolff has made no secret of the fact that the rigours of his job have exacted a toll he is no longer willing to pay, and that he covets a less hands-on role. How much less hands-on is unknown - except, perhaps, to Wolff - as is the identity of who might succeed him.
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