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Toto Wolff calls for rule that will anger Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has suggested that Formula 1 might have to introduce a salary cap if the sport is to continue operating with a budget cap. A $145m budget cap was introduced in 2021, which limits how much each team can spend each year, designed to stop the bigger teams buying their way to the title and blowing the smaller teams out of the water. While Wolff has told reporters that he will sit down with Lewis Hamilton in the off season to discuss a new contract with the current highest paid driver, the Austrian does not see such high wages as sustainable with the new cap. “We can see that we are facing a very difficult situation in F1 overall,” he said. READ: Lewis...
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