Toto Wolff compares Hamilton to Susie: 'I don't want to divorce you!'

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has been working with Lewis Hamilton for a long time, and the Briton's contract extension seems to be just a formality. The Austrian team boss says the relationship between him and the seven-time world champion is similar to that with his wife Susie Wolff when speaking to BBC Radio 4.

The 51-year-old team boss talks about the long history with his driver: "Lewis has become a friend, and over the years, we've gone through difficult spells and very good moments. We celebrated many championships, and we had discussions among ourselves which were not always easy," he says.

Wolff compares Hamilton to Susie

For Wolff, the English driver from Stevenage is more than just a driver and a colleague: "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,'" Wolff said.

It was not always easy, as Wolff, the man who threw his headphones through the pit box before Max Verstappen became the world champion, did not speak to Hamilton for a while, which was the case in 2016. "When we didn't speak to each other for a while, I invited him to come to my kitchen in Oxford and sit down and have a chat," Wolff concludes.