The Mercedes team principal took inspiration from the New Zealand All-Blacks rugby🍬 team’s famous motto in a bid to create unity at his F1 team, which clearly worked during their dominant years.

But for the past two seasons, Mercedes have struggled to rema💛in competitive as Red Bull ran away with the glory which was once theirs.

Wolff was questioned about how Mercedes maintain their ethos despite strugg🅠ling, and answered: “Human reaction is when something goes wrong, you want to say it’s your fault. Because that allows us to 💖get pressure off us. 

“It’s something that we actively debate.

“Clearly 🤪when things are rosy you can live up t꧃o those standards. 

“But so🥃metimes it goes terribly wrong, which happened to us last year and also in some instances this year.

“You justꦓ need to remind yourself constant💜ly about that mind-set, and those values. 

“You blame the problem and not the person.”

Wolff explained the responsibility h🧔e takes as the boss: “Fundamentally it’s all my fault. 

“If we have a bad pit stop, it’s not because the mechanic has just underperformed,🐼 it’s because his equipment is not up to the job, or the training hasn’t been good enough, or the wheel nuts are not how they should be.

“You can always🃏 trace where the problem is. It is up to us to deve✃lop the person so the person can overcome these tests. That’s why we ran the programme and we have stuck to it.”

Three years ago, as Lewis Hamilton was in the process of winning his joint-rඣecord seventh F1 championship, Wo💎lff explained his admiration for the “no d***heads” policy which he believes aided Mercedes.

“We have a sports psychologist in the team called Ceri Evans who is also the sports psychologist for the All Blacks,” he said at the ꦚtime.

“One of the mottos for ൩the All Blacks is🌠 ‘no d***heads’. We took that philosophy.

“We care for each other🍒 in the team and I think thi🤪s is being felt.

“But it’s not all schmoozing. There’s also a way of cop🍃ing with pressure. It’s a safe envi⛄ronment.

“We have no hire-and-fire policy, we don’t blame each other. It can be heated, and that’s very important, diver⛦sity of opinion. 

“But it never leads to a situation꧒ where we fall🍒 out with each other.

“If we fall ou🦄t, at the beginning, that means the characters didn’t fit [with] each other.”