Torger Christian "Toto" Wolff is an Austrian billionaire motorsport executive, investor, and former racing driver.
32 Facts About Toto Wolff
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Toto Wolff won his category in the 1994 24 Hours Nurburgring and later competed in the FIA GT Championship and Italian GT Championship.
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Toto Wolff was born on 12 January 1972 in Vienna to a Polish mother and a Romanian father.
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Toto Wolff grew up in the city and was educated in the Lycee Francais de Vienne, a prestigious French school.
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Toto Wolff's father was diagnosed with brain cancer when he was eight years old.
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Toto Wolff's father died of the disease when Wolff was 15.
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Toto Wolff started his motorsport career in 1992 in the Austrian Formula Ford Championship, driving in Austrian and German Formula Ford in 1993 and 1994.
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In 2002 Toto Wolff finished in sixth place in the N-GT category in the FIA GT Championship and won one race.
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Toto Wolff switched to the Italian GT Championship in 2003, winning a race in 2004 with Lorenzo Case, while teaming with Karl Wendlinger in the FIA GT Championship.
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Toto Wolff was runner up in the Austrian Rally Championship in 2006, and winner of the 2006 Dubai 24 Hour.
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Toto Wolff has served as an instructor at the Walter Lechner Racing School and in 2009 became a lap-record holder on the Nurburgring Nordschleife in a Porsche RSR.
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Toto Wolff has overall responsibility for the Mercedes EQ Formula E Team.
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In 2009, Toto Wolff bought a share of the Williams Formula One Team and joined the board of directors.
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In January 2013, Toto Wolff left Williams F1 to become an executive director of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team, with his business partner Rene Berger becoming non-executive director.
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Toto Wolff took over the coordination of all Mercedes-Benz motorsport activities, a responsibility previously held by Norbert Haug.
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In 2014, Toto Wolff sold two-thirds of his Williams shares to American businessman Brad Hollinger.
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On 9 March 2016, Toto Wolff sold his remaining shares in the Williams team.
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Toto Wolff's achievements were recognised through the presentation of a John Bolster Award from Todt at the 2018 Autosport Awards.
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Toto Wolff subsequently received the President's Award from Todt, along with team non-executive chairman Niki Lauda, at the 2018 FIA Prize Giving Gala held in St Petersburg, Russia.
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Toto Wolff won both F1 titles, F2 with George Russell, European F3 with Mick Schumacher, all three titles in its final season of DTM competition with Gary Paffett securing the drivers' title, both F1 eSports titles and numerous championships in customer racing.
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Since 2003, Toto Wolff has concentrated on strategic investments in medium-sized industrial and listed companies.
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Toto Wolff ran the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters race program for Mercedes-Benz, developing F3 engines and the Gullwing Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 racing car.
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Toto Wolff is co-owner of a sports management company with former F1 driver Mika Hakkinen and was involved in the management of racing drivers such as Bruno Spengler, Alexandre Premat and Valtteri Bottas.
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Toto Wolff was Director and CEO of the Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team and occasionally attended Formula E races.
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Toto Wolff is vice-chairman of the Mary Bendet Foundation, founded in memory of a school friend who was a role model for a generation of friends.
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Toto Wolff was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Cranfield University for his services to Motorsport in May 2021.
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In November 2021, Toto Wolff was appointed to an Associate Fellowship of the Oxford Said Business School for two years to transfer his understanding of high-performance culture, team leadership, and personal effectiveness from the racetracks into the classroom.
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Toto Wolff visited Harvard on 3 March 2022 to teach the case study to MBA students and lead a discussion on high-performance leadership and organisational culture.
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In May 2022, Toto Wolff was named as an executive fellow at Harvard Business School, a role in which he will serve as guest lecturer alongside Professor Anita Elberse.
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We tend to see very short life cycles for teams, but Toto Wolff has kept his team at the top for eight years now.
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Toto Wolff is married to Susie Toto Wolff, a former racecar driver and current managing director of F1 Academy.
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Toto Wolff is fluent in German, English, French, Italian, and Polish.