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Tom Brady, LeBron James, Michael Jordan … and an engine has yet to be revved in anger.

This weekend’s Miami Grand Prix is set to be one of THE glitziest events on the global sporting calendar and those three superstars have already been showing their faces in the build-up to the race. But one big name who is trying not to hog the limelight is Toto Wolff.

As Formula One enters a period of unprecedented commercial growth, the team principals have become familiar figures on television screens and staple features of online coverage. And towards the end of the dramatic 2021 season, the head-to-head rivalry of Wolff and Red Bull chief Christian Horner was almost as compelling as the battle between eventual champion Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.

Such has been their rise to prominence, organisers of the Miami Grand Prix wanted the team principals to go on a parade lap in front of the tens of thousands of fans - just as the drivers do ahead of every race. But the plan was scrapped, much to the Mercedes boss’s relief.

Wolff said: “I don’t think team owners should be waving at the fans. It should be the drivers at the forefront. They are the athletes - they are the gladiators in the machines. And not any of us.”

Even so, the American public has