As his fondness for The Art of Action shows the 42-year-old is also a man who immerses himself in books and articles on management culture, passing them onto mechanics, aerodynamicists and even the drivers as food for thought. Jargon such as “functionality” and “competencies”, usually found in boardrooms not motorhomes, peppers our conversation. Wolff even took the most senior members of the team on a seminar on military strategy: my suggestion that this influenced the team’s endeavour to have Red Bull banned for three races is met with a chuckle.