{"id":557934,"date":"2026-03-22T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557934\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:36:12","slug":"wolffs-son-passes-over-his-fathers-mercedes-stars-for-favourite-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557934\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolff\u2019s son passes over his father\u2019s Mercedes stars for favourite driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toto Wolff<\/a>‘s son, Jack, has revealed his favourite Formula 1<\/a> driver, and it is not someone from his father’s team.”Fernando Alonso!”- Jack, son of Toto Wolff<\/p>\n

Celebrating Father’s Day in Italy, a video was uploaded on social media where Toto Wolff sits with his son Jack at a karting event.<\/p>\n

Jack was asked who his favourite driver is, but he chose not to pick anyone currently or previously employed by his father at Mercedes.<\/p>\n

Instead of selecting Lewis Hamilton, George Russell or Kimi Antonelli, Jack picked two-time world champion Fernando Alonso<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Because he’s a two-time world champion, and I just like him a lot,” Jack explained, while his father was smiling next to him.<\/p>\n

\"FernandoAlonso\"\/<\/p>\n

Fernando Alonso – Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n

Wolff boasts as Mercedes boss enjoys his ‘little revenge’<\/p>\n

The Austrian team boss was happy to see Antonelli score his first Formula 1 Grand Prix victory last weekend in China.<\/p>\n

Wolff enjoyed his ‘little revenge’<\/a>, he told GPblog, among others, after the race.Check out the latest episode of GPblog’s F1 Paddock Update on Spotify!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff‘s son, Jack, has revealed his favourite Formula 1 driver, and it is not someone from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,35119,845,813,816,189983,85,4703],"class_list":["post-557934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-mercedes-amg-f1-team","tag-sports","tag-toto-wolff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}