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Toto Wolff says Mercedes is “promoting from within” to replace the employees that have been lured to Red Bull with “lottery number paycheques”.
To kick start their new engine operation, Red Bull has been luring away Mercedes’ staff. The Austrian team has announced that five employees of Mercedes High Performance Powertrains, in addition to Head of Mechanical Engineering Ben Hodkinson, have jumped ship to the newly formed Red Bull Powertrains.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff recently said that the number of staff that will be leaving is around 15. Wolff explains how the team is dealing with the exodus.
“We are promoting from within and some of them are really exciting,” the Austrian said.
“It’s really good to see the really loyal ones who have been approached and are staying and it is an overwhelmingly larger number than the ones who have been lured away.
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“Seeing that loyalty and integrity, in a way, confirms the values of this group.
“At the end of the day there were some really good people that were approached with lottery number paycheques and they haven’t even thought about it twice.
“They stayed because they liked the environment, for what we stand for, and it’s a good environment.
“We’ve proven it’s a good environment to work and prosper, and that is something that makes me very proud of the organisation in Brixworth,” concluded Wolff.
