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Wolff says childhood trauma taught him to protect 'tribe'
Toto Wolff says his father's passing when he was a teen and the responsibilities he inherited at the time shaped the protective nature with which he guards today his Mercedes "tribe". Wolff lost his father, a Romanian business owner living in Vienna, to brain cancer during his adolescence. The long, drawn out suffering took its toll on the young Austrian and his family and forced Wolff to take on the responsibility of looking after his siblings. The Mercedes team boss believes the distressing experience crucially impacted his character and outlook on life while admitting that it also later acted as a driver to "compensate" for what he didn’t have in his childhood and...
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