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Allison: Toto took a gamble on me
Mercedes technical director James Allison spoke on Sunday of his gratitude to the Formula 1 world champions and team boss Toto Wolff for their ‘gamble’ on a grieving man four years ago. The Briton said he had been “something of a wreck” after his wife Rebecca died suddenly of meningitis in March 2016 while he was working with Ferrari in Italy. “I am still grieving today four years on, but then I was crying in the car on my way into work and crying on the way home,” he said in a wide-ranging video interview conducted by Mercedes. “I didn’t know what the right thing to do was, at the time most of me was just wanting to crawl into a hole and never come out again,” added the...
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