Last year Wolff skipped the Japanese and Brazilian races to create an opportunity to delegate to others and to demonstrate that the team could operate without him on site.
This year a knee operation obliged him to miss Suzuka, and he is also absent from this weekend’s Qatar GP as he continues his recuperation.
Hamilton said that despite Wolff not being present on-site, the Austrian remains fully in touch with what’s going on at the track.
"Toto's in every meeting,” he said when asked by Autosport. “I saw someone wrote the other day that he had to call in or something for the last race, which was BS.
“Toto, even though he's not here in person, and he's obviously devastated he can't be here, he's a part of every single meeting.
“He dialled in to the meeting today, he'll dial into the meeting tomorrow morning, he'll be in the meeting in the afternoon, he's on the comms just like the guys back at the factory on the comms for strategy all weekend.
“He's still 100% fully part [of everything], he's just not physically here in the country. And he's a part of those meetings, he speaks in all those meetings just as he does when he's here.”
Hamilton said that Wolff had earned the right to avoid travelling to every race: “He's worked incredibly hard to set up this team to be where it is today.
Source: Autosport