Susie Wolff MBE |
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Wolff in 2014
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Born |
Oban, Scotland |
6 December 1982
Nationality | British |
Education | Oban High School |
Spouse(s) | Toto Wolff (m. 2011) |
Children | 1 |
DTM | |
Years active | 2006–2012 |
Teams | Mücke Motorsport, Persson Motorsport |
Car no. | 23 |
Starts | 73 |
Wins | 0 |
Poles | 0 |
Fastest laps | 0 |
Best finish | 13th in 2010 |
Previous series | |
2005 2002–04 |
British F3 British Formula Renault |
Suzanne "Susie" Wolff,MBE (née Stoddart; born 6 December 1982, in Oban, Scotland) is a retired British racing driver. Her parents, John and Sally Stoddart, owned a motorcycle dealership in Oban and her father raced bikes competitively. She progressed through the ranks of motorsport, starting off in karting, then moving up to Formula Renault and Formula Three before moving to the DTM to compete for Mercedes-Benz. In 2012, she was signed by the Williams Formula One team to work as a development driver. On 4 November 2015, Susie Wolff announced her retirement from F1 and from all motorsport after the end of season Race of Champions at the end of November.
She lives in Ermatingen, Switzerland, with her husband Toto Wolff, executive director of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team since 21 January 2013. The two were married in October 2011. In October 2016 Wolff announced on Twitter that she was pregnant with their first child.
In 2014, Wolff was the first woman to take part in a Formula One race weekend in 22 years, at the British Grand Prix, at Silverstone. In 2016, she joined Channel 4 in the UK to be an analyst for their F1 Coverage.
Wolff began karting from an early age, and in 1996 she was named the British Woman Kart Racing Driver of the year. In 1997, she competed in a number of different karting categories and succeeded in most of them. She was first in the 24hr Middle East Kart Championship, champion in both the Scottish Junior Intercontinental "A" and the Scottish Open Junior Intercontinental "A" categories and was again named British Woman Kart Racing Driver of the year.