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Horner: I encouraged Mercedes to sign Hamilton to weaken McLaren
Christian Horner claims he encouraged Mercedes to sign Lewis Hamilton when the now triple Formula 1 world champion was on the market back in 2012. Horner told the British magazine F1 Racing that Hamilton, who has dominated F1 with Mercedes for the past two seasons, was actually more keen to move to Red Bull. 'He was desperate to drive for the team,' said the Red Bull team boss. 'But there was no way we could accommodate him while Sebastian [Vettel] was with us.' So Horner says he encouraged Mercedes to sign Hamilton instead, to replace Michael Schumacher as the great seven time world champion returned to retirement. 'McLaren had been very competitive in 2011 and 2012 and I thought it would...
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