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#301 Marklar

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Posted 14 January 2016 - 22:06

I'm also not aware that she (or Toto for that matter) paid for the job. I could imagine that her role at Williams was also some kind of return for the Mercedes engine, though



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#302 anneomoly

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Posted 15 January 2016 - 19:47

I'm also not aware that she (or Toto for that matter) paid for the job. I could imagine that her role at Williams was also some kind of return for the Mercedes engine, though

 

People throw this around, but given Toto isn't a majority shareholder in Mercedes who genuinely thinks that the entire board of Mercedes (or a majority) would okay that? If Toto was a sole team principal in the ilk of Frank Williams then maybe it would be a possibility, but you think Paddy Lowe and Niki Lauda are going to lose money out of their racing budget like that? Or Dieter Zetsche? (Are you even sure that Toto would lose money out his engine development fund to further his wife's career? He wants to win, after all.)



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Posted 13 February 2016 - 17:44

I'm not saying this to bash Susie but it did make me laugh yesterday. I just got back from hols, and on my first day back at work (a very large corporate company), had to attend a big 'Roadshow'. You know, one of those big do's that are all about telling us how great the company is and building team spirit. 

 

At one point of the presentation, they had a section telling us we all had to be great leaders and where to find our role models. They then showed a screen filled with about 20 or so very famous leaders / role models such as Churchill, Mandela, Luther King, Warren Buffet, Obama, Kennedy...that sort of thing. Well among all these faces was a picture of Susie Wolf! I mean WTF - it's great if Susie has helped inspire anyone out there, but to see her picture put up with all those others just looked a bit surreal. I swear I was the only one of the 1000 people there who knew who she was! 



#304 Marklar

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Posted 13 February 2016 - 17:50

I'm not saying this to bash Susie but it did make me laugh yesterday. I just got back from hols, and on my first day back at work (a very large corporate company), had to attend a big 'Roadshow'. You know, one of those big do's that are all about telling us how great the company is and building team spirit. 

 

At one point of the presentation, they had a section telling us we all had to be great leaders and where to find our role models. They then showed a screen filled with about 20 or so very famous leaders / role models such as Churchill, Mandela, Luther King, Warren Buffet, Obama, Kennedy...that sort of thing. Well among all these faces was a picture of Susie Wolf! I mean WTF - it's great if Susie has helped inspire anyone out there, but to see her picture put up with all those others just looked a bit surreal. I swear I was the only one of the 1000 people there who knew who she was! 

  :eek: :eek:  :eek:  :eek:  :eek: 



#305 Ross Stonefeld

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Posted 13 February 2016 - 17:55

Was she in her suit? In the sense of "Woman Racing Driver" or in a way that if you didn't recognise her specifically youd have no idea what her context was. 



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Posted 13 February 2016 - 19:17

I think she was in her suit, but to be honest it was near the end of a 3 hour presentation, so I was a bit....drowsy. I do understand why someone thought they would put her in there, and maybe not everyone on the screen was a Churchill or Mandela, but the slide was only up for around 20 seconds so I didn't get that much time to take in everyone on it.

 

Just remembered, Sir Alex Ferguson was up there to, so I guess that's a halfway house, in that he's a sports celebrity too, albeit an incredibly successful one.


Edited by DS27, 13 February 2016 - 19:20.


#307 king_crud

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Posted 14 February 2016 - 21:53

 

 

Just remembered, Sir Alex Ferguson was up there to, so I guess that's a halfway house, in that he's a sports celebrity too, albeit an incredibly successful one.

 

yeah but he won stuff



#308 JtP2

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Posted 10 March 2016 - 21:11

He already did that last year, unrelated.
 
http://www.autosport...t.php/id/114530


Apparently not until today!

#309 RedBaron

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Posted 10 March 2016 - 22:15

Apparently not until today!

 

True.

 

That's the same deal I linked to finally being completed, selling his 15% over a period of time to Brad Hollinger. It did take longer than reported though!


Edited by RedBaron, 10 March 2016 - 22:15.


#310 Marklar

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Posted 21 October 2016 - 04:21

I knew it.

 

Toto & Susie Wolff are expecting a baby I was just told by my @BILD colleague. Will probably race against Max Verstappen in 2035. Congrats!



#311 SenorSjon

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Posted 21 October 2016 - 08:19

Didn't take long.  ;)

 

http://forums.autosp...g/#entry7371484

 

 

I guess she is pregnant or soon to be.

 

Edited by SenorSjon, 21 October 2016 - 08:20.