(Motorsport-Total.com) – Toto Wolff is one of the most successful Formula 1 team bosses of all time. However, the Austrian pursued another career aspiration in his youth: racing driver. He did fairly well in the rally car, it was enough for the Austrian Vice State Champion title 2006. “I could have made a living from it,” Wolff believes looking back.
1992 started his career in the Formula Ford, later Wolff switched to GT prototypes. Two years later, he won a class classification as part of the 24 hours at the Nürburgring. His career ended that year, however, when his main sponsor retired after Karl Wendlinger's serious accident in Monaco.
It was “brutal”, but Wolff had to admit that he was not a pilot exploits its full potential. Nevertheless, he continued to do motorsport alongside his financial business. In April 2009 he set a new lap record on the Nordschleife for vehicles with naturally aspirated engines.
Before that he struggled between and 2006 in the GT World Championship at the Open. And was crowned runner-up in the Austrian National Rally Championship. “I drove GT prototypes and – with very good partners, you have to say – I also won races at the World Cup level,” recalls today 48 – Interview with one year old at ' auto motor und sport '.
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“I drove the World Rally Championship, even if it struggled in Group N, and I achieved best times there. But from the start, I judge that the level would be enough to make a living from it,” he is convinced, for example in series like the DTM or GT. “But not outstanding.”
Wolff had to see that. In hindsight the right decision. “That is always the assessment I made: You have to know what you are intestine and what you are not intestine for. That is why I switched to business at an early stage. That struggle was something that I always enjoyed and always liked is. “
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