Mercedes Formulation One staff boss and co-owner Toto Wolff has revealed he examined constructive for COVID-19 and needed to isolate in Austria this month however is now out of quarantine.

The 49-year-old informed Austria’s ORF tv in an interview at Sunday’s Kitzbuehel Alpine snowboarding World Cup downhill that he had no signs.

“We had deliberate to be right here for just a few days and out of nowhere I bought a constructive corona check,” mentioned Austrian Wolff. “However every thing’s advantageous…it might have gone badly, however we’re out of quarantine.”

5 Formulation One drivers, together with Mercedes’ seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton, have had the brand new coronavirus. So too have Aston Martin staff proprietor Lawrence Stroll and Williams principal Simon Roberts.

Wolff owns one third of the Mercedes staff as an equal companion with petrochemicals kind Ineos and dad or mum firm Daimler AG.

The Austrian’s present focus is on agreeing a brand new cope with Hamilton, who has been out of contract for the reason that finish of final 12 months and celebrated his thirty sixth birthday this month.

Wolff mentioned the legal professionals have been exhausting at work, with a deal needing to be in place earlier than pre-season testing in Bahrain in March.

The season begins at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit on March 28.

“We do not make life simple for them, after all, after we each argue over Zoom and hold sending curveballs to the legal professionals,” mentioned Wolff.

“He is in America now and I am right here. Sooner or later we are going to finalise it (the deal).

“We have now a extremely strong foundation in our relationship. We have now celebrated nice successes collectively and wish to proceed doing so sooner or later. However generally you must speak issues out intimately, and that took or nonetheless takes us a while.”