Speaking the day after Hamilton's shock move to Ferrari for 2025 was announced, Wolff said he has no concerns about potentially having to block the flow of information on future development to Hamilton, suggesting that it’s too early to make a call on how that process might work.
Logic suggests that Hamilton will henceforth be frozen out of any discussions on 2026, when the new F1 regulations come in.
However, inevitably there will be a crossover between development work undertaken to improve this year’s W15 and the design process for next year’s W16 that Hamilton will not race.
“I think what I've always tried to do as a team principal, and all of us at Mercedes, is to be transparent, and fair,” said Wolff. “And nothing's going to change in that respect in 2024.
“We owe it to our principles and our racing intent, how we go about, and we will respect that. And I will be sure that the drivers will respect it.
“In terms of the development going forward, I think this is something which we need to look at. The regulations stay pretty much the same. And when it comes to 2025, we will evaluate later in the season what it means in terms of technical information, but that's not something that bothers me at all.
“We have engineers that leave us and go to other teams and the notice periods are sometimes as short as six months.
“So I don't have any doubt in Lewis' integrity, in terms of sharing information. And in that respect, we want to make sure that this is a successful season for both drivers, and a successful season for Mercedes, and all of us will give our utmost to achieve that.”
Source: Autosport