Mol: Wolff’s Abu Dhabi mixed emotions ‘very strange’

Toto Wolff has been accused of putting on an act either during or after the controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Will the real Toto please stand up, is the call from Dutch TV commentator and presenter Olav Mol.

The 60-year-old Ziggo Sport broadcaster is perplexed at how Wolff could be so indignant about Mercedes’ treatment at the Yas Marina finale and yet just a few hours later, be seen partying away to celebrate the team’s eighth consecutive Constructors’ world title.

Wolff had yelled furiously at Michael Masi over the radio system as the Australian – replaced last week as Formula 1’s race director – made decisions that cost Lewis Hamilton a record-breaking eighth Drivers’ crown, snatched from his hands by Max Verstappen.

The Mercedes team principal refused to conduct his usual round of media interviews afterwards, instead shutting himself away and presiding over two failed protests by the team against the race result.

And yet later the same night, the Austrian appeared in high spirits as he partied with colleagues who let their hair down at the end of an intense, demanding season.

But the two sides Wolff showed that night do not sit comfortably alongside each other, claims Mol. So which is the true Toto and the other a fake, he asks.

“It is of course very strange that you start screaming into a microphone that something is not possible and four hours later videos come out in which you are crowd-surfing and partying,” said Mol during an interview with Motorsport.com.

“For me, that doesn’t go together. Then I think ‘which of the two is theatre?’

“I don’t think it is very nice how Toto Wolff or Mercedes handled this. I didn’t expect that from him.”

Wolff has said previously about the afterparty: “It was a matter of going