As the driving force behind Formula One’s most successful team, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has reached the summit of success alongside star driver Lewis Hamilton.
Embarking on a new season, Wolff also wants to throw his weight behind furthering discussions on mental health to help people suffering in sport and beyond.
“What I want to do is encourage people to seek help and not see it as a stigma, of being a dysfunctionality,” Wolff said Saturday during a news conference at the Bahrain Grand Prix. “I am always someone that has been open with his close environment. (But) it’s not like the flavor of the month to talk in terms of your own sufferings with mental health.”
He says people in highly successful positions are unfairly portrayed as being above the difficulties affecting others.
“People who are perceived as having it all, the Formula One lifestyle, all smiling and