Quote · Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Susie Wolff (Managing Director of F1 Academy)
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The Love Story: From Miss Austria to a Petrol Station Text
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The love story is told in full cinematic detail. Susie clocks Toto at a team dinner; Matthias Lauda watches her eyes and says 'you've got no chance, he's dating Miss Austria.' When Toto crashes at the Nürburgring, team manager Hans-Jürgen Mattes suggests someone should call him — and Gary Paffett volunteers Susie. They speak for an hour. She counts down to a big championship dinner in Düsseldorf; she gets her hair done, picks an outfit, goes down to breakfast in her race suit when he fails to show for dinner. Then at lunch the next day, someone jokes she should date a Mercedes person. Toto says, publicly: 'What about me?' She drives back to Switzerland, pulls into a fuel station, drafts the text ten times, and sends it. His reply comes hours later: 'I'm getting in a plane, I'll call you.' He bought the ring six weeks later.
