Final 12 months Wolff skipped the Japanese and Brazilian races to create a chance to delegate to others and to display that the workforce might function with out him on web site.
This 12 months a knee operation obliged him to overlook Suzuka, and he’s additionally absent from this weekend’s Qatar GP as he continues his recuperation.
Hamilton stated that regardless of Wolff not being current on-site, the Austrian stays totally in contact with what’s occurring on the observe.
“Toto’s in each assembly,” he stated when requested by Autosport. “I noticed somebody wrote the opposite day that he needed to name in or one thing for the final race, which was BS.
“Toto, although he isn’t right here in individual, and he is clearly devastated he cannot be right here, he is part of each single assembly.
“He dialled in to the assembly immediately, he’ll dial into the assembly tomorrow morning, he’ll be within the assembly within the afternoon, he is on the comms similar to the fellows again on the manufacturing facility on the comms for technique all weekend.
“He is nonetheless 100% totally half [of everything], he is simply not bodily right here within the nation. And he is part of these conferences, he speaks in all these conferences simply as he does when he is right here.”
Hamilton stated that Wolff had earned the fitting to keep away from travelling to each race: “He is labored extremely arduous to arrange this workforce to be the place it’s immediately.
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG excursions the observe on a scooter
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“And he ought to have the ability to have weekends off with out a drawback. He is the boss. Shoot, if I owned the workforce, I am going to undoubtedly take weekends off!
“Not that he is taking the weekend off. However you recognize what I imply? He has the fitting to if he wished to, but it surely’s simply because he is recovering.
“I simply inform him we’ll be pushing. I simply at all times inform him, don’t be concerned, you arrange a terrific workforce, we’ll strive do you proud this weekend.”
Hamilton additionally made it clear that he’s in contact with Wolff regularly between race weekends.
“Toto and I are involved each week, on a regular basis,” he stated. “Good pals, very, excellent pals, team-mates. So we do a number of speaking about vehicles. Once I’m again dwelling, we hang around, we have now lunch.
“I am at all times attempting to be taught, Toto is a businessman, and he is at all times massively supportive.
“You are going to see some issues that can shift over the approaching months, at the least into subsequent 12 months.
“However I feel you have already seen my progress, he has been such an enormous a part of that, and being open-minded and permitting me to be who I’m.
“And collectively we have unlocked a lot. We have executed a lot greater than I feel another partnership that you’ve got seen within the sport, on many ranges.”