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FIA drops investigation into conduct of Toto and Susie Wolff after finding no conflict of interest possible

www.skysports.com FIA drops investigation into conduct of Toto and Susie Wolff after finding no conflict of interest possible

The FIA has dropped the investigation into the conduct of Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff and his wife Susie, the head of F1 Academy, after finding Formula 1’s compliance rules to be sufficiently robust to prevent any breaches of confidentiality.

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So, a whole big nothing sandwich in the end. Really strange situation. All teams denying any involvement, meanwhile El Salman under fire. What a shit show.
- Once every team denied involvement I was fairly certain nothing would come out of it. The FIA embarrassed themselves yet again
  
  The FIA embarrassed themselves yet again
  And if they didn't look into the allegations, they'd be called a Mercedes/Wolff lapdog. I don't see any problems with looking into allegations. That's their job.
- I wonder if there will be any consequences for letting this happen in the first place.

Absolute shitshow.
I've heard of some opinions saying that all this fuss is to try to set the teams against each other, and after such cheap accusations (while not actually accusing) and this quick withdrawal from the FIA I'm inclined to believe that.
- Or some poor little boys' feelings were hurt because a lady has a job. And let me tell you what, there's been a lot of that the last couple of days.

In these situations, where an investigation is already announced, it should always be continued. If there is nothing, it would be in the report.
But it is stopped, so there must have been some truth in the allegations. Probably a minor issue. Maybe FIA wants to protect Susie, Toto and a few others.
- But it is stopped, so there must have been some truth in the allegations.
  What the hell sort of logic is that??

In an ideal world, one of the two should recuse themselves from the position in the first place, though. And this is why I look down to F1 management. Money undermines values there.

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