It was called the Piranha Club, and a book was written about it. But — and this is where we get back to the piranhas — the animosity is just as fierce between their bosses, men cut from contrasting cloths: the taut Austrian Toto Wolff in Hamilton’s Mercedes corner and the more devil-may-care Christian Horner of Red Bull scrapping for Verstappen. It should be noted that Ecclestone, who turns 91 this month, is a friend of Horner and no fan of Wolff. Torger Christian Wolff, born in Vienna nearly two years before Horner, is 49 and one half of the sport’s ‘power couple’ with wife Susie, team principal of Formula E’s Venturi Racing.

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