Susie Wolff won’t again down in her authorized motion towards the FIA over allegations made about her final yr, says her husband, Mercedes group principal Toto Wolff.
She has begun authorized proceedings in France over statements she claims the FIA made about her three months earlier. The FIA mentioned on the time it was investigating the pair over an alleged battle of pursuits, then mentioned two days later the matter had been dropped.
Final yr she vowed “I cannot permit myself to be intimidated and intend to comply with up till I’ve came upon who has instigated this marketing campaign and misled the media.” Her husband mentioned right this moment she is decided to pursue her case.
“Susie is a robust girl,” Wolff informed Sky. “She doesn’t take something from anybody and has all the time adopted by way of on her convictions and values. And that’s the case right here.
“She’s very unemotional about it and pragmatic. She feels incorrect was executed. And the court docket wants to listen to that. Nothing’s going to carry you off that path. That’s how her character is.”
The case is the newest in a sequence of controversies to hit System 1 this yr. Earlier this week the FIA Ethics Committee dismissed allegations towards president Mohammed Ben Sulayem. Pink Bull remains to be grappling with the fall-out from its investigation of group principal Christian Horner, who was additionally cleared, however faces an attraction.
Lewis Hamilton mentioned yesterday the rows mirrored badly on F1 and gave his assist for Susie Wolff.
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Her husband acknowledged the rows have overshadowed the beginning of the brand new season.
“It’s the case and the truth that all yr now we’ve been speaking about circumstances of [inadequate] transparency and varied different elements which can be simply not nice and that is what Lewis referred to,” he mentioned. “We should always discuss concerning the greatness of the game, the place we’re and never the opposite stuff. However it must be pointed to.”
“Susie began the method many months in the past, has executed it very diligently so far as I’m involved, and can go all the best way,” he added. “I feel it issues for her most to seek out out what occurred and folks take accountability and accountability and issues and never brushed below the carpet.
“I feel we as a sport want to do this in all areas, whether or not it’s Susie’s case or whether or not it’s some case with the opposite groups. General, I feel the game has such an enormous platform. We’re doing so effectively and possibly typically we have to take it out of the jurisdictions of our sport into the true world and see what it does.”
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