Toto Wolff says his wife, Susie, wants “accountability” afte👍r tak🐠ing legal action against F1’s governing body the FIA.

On the eve of this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, F1 Academy director Susie Wolff announced she had filed a criminal complaint against the FIAﷺ following its controver♓sial conflict of interest inquiry into her in December.

Th🃏e FIA launched and then quickly dropped an investigation into a magazine’s claims that rival teams had expressed concerns her relationship w🐼ith husband Wolff, the Mercedes team principal, presented a conflict of interest in the sport.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton praised Wolff’s “brave” action anౠd slammed F1 for having “no transparency and no accountability”.

“First of all Susi𝐆e is a strong woman, she doesn’t take anything from anyone and has always followed through on her convictions and value𒉰s, and that’s the case here,” Mercedes boss Wolff told Sky.

“She’s very unemotional about it and pragmati𝄹c. She feels wrong was done and the court needs to hear that. Nothing is going to bring her off that path. That’s how her character is.

"It is the case and a fact that all year now we have ඣbeen talking about cases of intransparency and various other factors which are just not 𓂃great. This is what Lewis referred to.

"We should talk about the great of the sport and not the other stuff, but it needs to be p👍ointed to.”

Wolff said it is important tha🌃t such matters are not “brushed under the c🦄arpet”.

"I think Susie, she’s started that process many months ago, she’s done it very diligently as fa🧸r as I’m concerned and🐲 it will go all the way,” he added.

“I think it matters for her the most to find out what happened, that people take accountability and responsibility and things are not brushed under the🅰 carpet. I think we as a sport need to do that in all areas, whether it is Susie’s case or whether it is some case with the othe꧑r teams.

“Overall, this sport has such a massive platform and doing so well. Maybe sometimes we need to take it out of the jurജisdiction 💯of our sport and into the real world and see what that does.”

Asked if he thinks it will be a watershed moment for the sport, Wolff replied: “No I don’t think there is such thꩲing a🌌s a watershed moment.

“I just think that at a certain stage we s🅷houldn’t be just getting those hits and accepting them in all areas, to make this sport as transparent as it should be considering its importance in the world.”