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Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff “didn’t speak to each other for a while”, and Wolff explains how the situation was resolved.
In an interview on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff revealed he and Lewis Hamilton did not speak to each other for a time, back in 2016 during the Briton’s battle with team-mate Nico Rosberg.
“A key moment was at the end of 2016 where we didn’t speak to each other for a while,” the Austrian said.
“So I invited him to come to my kitchen in Oxford and sit down and have a chat.
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“The analogy I gave to him is that also I have arguments with Susie [Wolff, Toto’s wife]. Even if we shout at each other, even if we have this argument, there’s never thought of divorcing.
“And that’s why I said to him: ‘I don’t want to divorce you and neither do you, because I want the best racing driver in our cars and you want to have the best cars.’
“So we came to the conclusion that we can have conflict, we can create an atmosphere where we’re able to be brutally honest with each other, and sometimes we agree to disagree, but we move on,” Wolff concluded.
