Toto Wolff will reportedly be absent from the F1 Japanese Grand Prix because he needs knee surgery.
D’Ambrosio, a Belgian former racing driver who featured in F1 from 2011-2012 with Marussia and Lotus, is now a key member behind-the-scenes at Mercedes.
D’Ambrosio inherited some of the responsibilities left behind by James Vowles, who quit Mercedes to become Williams team principal.Wolff said about D’Ambrosio earlier this year: “Jerome is taking over some of James Vowles’ topics.“He’s looking after the young driver programme in close co-operation with [driver development chief Gwen Lagrue], who has been doing it very successfully over the last few years.
“We are looking at grassroots motorsports from the early stages of go-karts and this is where Gwen is very active.“He’s looking at things and there’s plenty of scope that James did beyond the strategy work.“I have known Jerome a long time because, back in the day, when he was in the Renault driver development [programme], I thought about managing him. It’s 15 or 20 years ago.
“We had a look again at him when he when he dropped out of the programme, so I’ve known him as a racing driver. But never from the human standpoint and never from the managerial side. “When Susie offered him the option to jump out of the cockpit into a management role, he took it with both hands and they were quite a good, competitive duo and Jerome led it into another year and finished second in the Formula E Championship.
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