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Lauda: I prayed for Hamilton's McLaren to break
The moment Niki Lauda prayed for: Lewis Hamilton breaks down at the 2012 Singapore GP
Niki Lauda has recalled how one important piece of Mercedes‘ total dominance of Formula 1 this year was actually put in place in 2012, and the Formula 1 legend, now Mercedes' team chairman, credits not only McLaren but also god.
It was in late 2012 that Lauda was trying to convince the British driver Lewis Hamilton, now the 2014 world champion, to quit McLaren and join the burgeoning Mercedes team.
'McLaren wanted to keep him and had offered him a contract,' Lauda told Austrian radio O3 this week. 'So I asked if I could see him the next day. That was the day of the race on Sunday.'
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