Toto Wolff shuts down INEOS-Mercedes split talk after W16 livery surprise
Toto Wolff rejects claim Mercedes and INEOS came close to splitt🐲ing.
Toto Wolff has rubbished suggestions that the Mercedes F1 team and Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s INEOS ca🦹me close to splitting.
A report in The Telegraph earlier this week claimed that Mercedes were looking to buy the chemical gꦗiant out o😼f its stake in the team and were involved in “tense negotiations” with Ratcliffe.
INEOS has an equal shareholding with Mercedes parent company Daimler and Wolff, Mer👍cedes' motorsport boss and F1 team principal.
However, Wolff has rejected the report, insisting that Ratcliffe🤪 remains one of the “three amigos” involved in the eight-time constructors’ world champions.
"[It was] never a consideration," Wolff told Sky Sports News at the F1 75 season launch event at💫 The O2 Arena in London on Tuesday.
"Ji𒈔m Ratcliffe is one of us three amigos - Mercedes, Jim and I. We are never going to part ways. He's been a great sponsor. We have had projects together. Nothing you read in the news will change anything.”
A Mercedes spokesperson told ltxcn.top: “There have been no discussion꧙s at any point of a𝕴 shareholder change and sponsorship with Ineos is ongoing and stable."
understands The Telegraph’s report is wide of the mark in numerous ways.Sky Sports News re෴porter Craig Slater said: “Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the boss of INEOS, who people will have learned in recent weeks is having to make cutbacks in terms of the sports enterprises he has been supporting.
“He is in litigation at the moment with New Zeaꩲland rugby. Sir Ben Ainslie, who was spearheading his Americas Cup challenge, is also taking him to court potential🌜ly.
“But what about Mercedes the Formula 1 team itself? Sir Jim Ratcliffe is a one-third owner of that F1 team, and there was ♒a story in The Telegraph thatౠ Daimler-Benz were looking at arranging some funds to buy Ratcliffe out of his ownership, because perhaps he was not able to support the team via sponsorship, as he has done in previous years.
“Well, I’ve been in touch ꦆwith Mercedes about this, and they assure me there is no truth in that story. There have been no discussions at any point of a shareholder change, and sponsorship with INEOS is ongoing and stable. That’s what the team are tell🌟ing me.
“But, potentially expect that INEOS s🎐ponsorship to be less prominent on the car when it comes out from under wraps.”
Mercedes have a new driver line-up for 2025 with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell partnered by 18-year-old168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Kimi Antonelli, who has been chosen as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s replacement.
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