Susie Wolff Leaves CEO Place at Venturi Method E

Longtime racer Susie Wolff has waved goodbye to her most up-to-date position in racing. In July 2018, she accepted a place as workforce principal of the Venturi Formula E workforce earlier than transferring to CEO on the finish of 2021. Now, in a sequence of posts, Wolff has introduced that she’ll be leaving Venturi earlier than the daybreak of Method E’s Gen3 period.

When Wolff took over at Venturi, issues have been pretty bleak throughout the workforce. It had been round because the inaugural 2014-15 season of the game, nevertheless it was by no means an everyday competitor for victory; a handful of podiums was all it needed to its identify. With Wolff in management, although, the workforce turned itself round. It was a legit Championship contender this 12 months, usually outperforming the Mercedes-Benz manufacturing facility effort that was offering Venturi its engines. A second place total, although, was a powerful comfort.

Wolff introduced her departure by way of Twitter thread:

As probably the most profitable season in Venturi FE’s historical past involves an finish, so does my private journey with the workforce and Method E. I depart with immense pleasure within the stable foundations we have now constructed collectively, because the workforce begins a brand new chapter with Maserati.

After I joined Venturi FE, my purpose was to construct a workforce that was not simply profitable on observe, however stood for a better objective. A racing household that remember variety and championed inclusivity. Whereas that journey nonetheless continues, I’m so pleased with the progress we’ve made.

Little did I do know 4 years in the past the dimensions of the challenges we’d face as a workforce.

It was these powerful moments that outlined the resilience, religion and belief that we have now in-built one another: to come back from racing on the again to persistently combating for victories and titles.

Thanks Gildo Pastor in your imaginative and prescient and perception within the workforce. Additionally Alejandro Agag and everybody in Method E for 4 nice seasons of racing. And at last, to my workforce Venturi FE, it was an honour to have led and represented such a gifted and motivated group of individuals.

The place the workforce — and Wolff — go from right here stays to be seen.