Toto Wolff isn't walking away from Mercedes, but he's no longer running the show alone. Days after Kimi Antonelli's title clinch in Mexico City made the 20-year-old the first first-time champion Mercedes has crowned since Nico Rosberg in 2016, Wolff laid out his succession plan: the one-man team principal era is over. He called himself a dinosaur navigating a 24-race calendar, cost cap constraints, and corporate sprawl that one person can't manage anymore. The solution is a split structure, with communications boss Bradley Lord already absorbing operational weight Wolff used to carry. "If someone could do it better, I'd step aside," Wolff said, framing his daily self-evaluation as pragmatism, not sentiment. But he shut down any immediate exit talk with a smile: "I don't plan to call it a day." Translation: the Austrian architect of Mercedes' modern dominance is delegating, not departing. The pitwall headset stays on.
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