A new short video has been released with some insights from Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff explaining his approach to F1 and motorsport.

Wolff caught the racing bug as as teenager, when he was introduced to it by a friend and he started driving, but when racing against his friend and fellow Austrian Alex Wurz, he realised that he did not have what it took to succeed as a driver.

Rival team boss Christian Horner had a similar experience, racing against Juan Pablo Montoya in Formula 3000 and quit to become a team manager.

Wolff quit to become a banker, a painful decision, but the bug had bitten and when he had made a fortune as an investor in tech start ups he came back into the sport. Now one of the most successful managers and entrepreneurs in F1, he tells his story in this short film.

F1 fans wanting a window in on the Toto Wolff methodology will learn quite a bit. It's quite revealing and certainly gives an insight into his attitude to the sport and to competition.