Toto Wolff says his wife, Susie, wants “accountabil💃ity” after taking legal action against F1’s governing body the FIA.

O𝔍n the eꦦve of this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, F1 Academy director Susie Wolff announced she had filed a criminal complaint against the FIA following its controversial conflict of interest inquiry into her in December.

The FIA launched and then quickly dropped an investigation into a magazine’s claims that rival teams had expressed concerns her relationship with husband Wolff, the Mercedes team principal, presentedᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ a conflict of interest in the sport.

Mercedes driver Lewis Ha🀅milton praised Wolff’s “b🌠rave” action and slammed F1 for having “no transparency and no accountability”.

“First of all Susie is a 🍸strong woman, she doesn’t take anything from anyone and has always followed through on her convictions and values, and that’s the case here,” Mercedes boss Woꦆlff told Sky.

“She’s very unemotional about it and pragmatic. She feel𓂃s wrong was done and the court needs to hear that. Nothing is going to bring her off that path. That’s how her character is.

"It is the case and a fact that all year nowಌ we have been talking about cases of intransparency and various other factors which are ju𝔉st not great. This is what Lewis referred to.

"We should 💜talk about the great of the sport and not the other stuff, but it needs to be pointed to.”

Wolff 🥂said it is important that such matters are not “ﷺbrushed under the carpet”.

"I think Susie, she’s started that process many months ago, sh⭕e’s ꧒done it very diligently as far as I’m concerned and it will go all the way,” he added.

“I think it matters for her the most to find out what happened, that people take accountability and responsibility and things are not brushed under the carpet. I think we as a sport need to do that in all areas, whether it is Susie’s case or wh▨ether it is some case with the other teams.

“Overall, this sport has such a massive platform ꦛand doing so well. Maybe sometimes we need to take it out of the jurisdiction of our sport and into the real world and see what that does.”

Asked if he thinks it will be a watershed moment for the sport, Wolff replied: “No I don’t♈ think there is such thing as a watershed moment.

“I just think that at a certain stage we s🌊houldn’t be just getting those hits and accepting them in all areas, to make this sport as transparent as it should be considering its importance in the world.”