The inquest that followed Mercedes' below-par performance in Monaco, where Lewis Hamilton was horribly off the pace and the pit crew was unable to remove a wheel from Valtteri Bottas' W12, was long and deep and led to Wolff remarking that he needed to stay on top of his emotions.
Fast forward two weeks and those emotions could be contained no longer as he described what had just unfolded around the streets of Baku as "painful", and that he and Hamilton felt "destroyed" by a simple error from the seven-time champion that had cost him at least 18 points.
Just 40 minutes prior to that mistake a potential 15-point deficit to Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who was cruising to back-to-back wins for the first time in his F1 career, was dramatically erased due to a left-rear tyre failure that spat him venomously into a concrete wall.
In an instant, Hamilton was staring at the possibility of leaving the 'Land of Fire' with a likely 14-point lead if he could hold on to second place at the restart that followed a lengthy red-flag period.
Even before that moment, Hamilton had made clear over the team radio he would not be taking any risks in going head-to-head with new race leader Sergio Perez into the first corner when he declared the season as "a marathon and not a sprint", suggesting he was thinking of the long game rather than any instant glory in the Azeri capital.