Mercedes is “currently in active legal exchange with the FIA” regarding the governing body’s controversial investigation into alleged conflict of interest, team boss Toto Wolff said in a statement Friday.
Wolff added in his statement, “We await full transparency about what took place and why, and have expressly reserved all legal rights.”
Susie Wolff, F1 Academy managing director and his wife, released a statement of her own Friday, writing that she has “received online abuse about my work and my family” and wants to uncover “who has instigated this campaign and misled the media.”
The FIA ended its probe on Thursday after confirming “appropriate protective measures are in place to mitigate any potential conflicts.”
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) December 8, 2023
How this all began
Earlier this week, the FIA released a statement saying that its compliance department was looking into “media speculation centered on the allegation of information of a confidential nature being passed to an F1 team principal from a member of FOM personnel.” The FIA never specified it was about Toto and Susie Wolff, but the report in question was assumed to come from “BusinessF1” magazine, which published a story stating that…
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