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Lauda slams Vettel switch rumours

Niki Lauda has slammed speculation Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel could switch to Mercedes for 2018. However, one Italian journalist says it was Lauda himself who recently confided to friends that Mercedes has inked a ‘pre-agreement' with the German. 'If I was at Mercedes and I could have the best German driver, I would take him,' former F1 driver Marc Surer told the German broadcaster Sky. But Surer also suspects that Lauda could have deliberated planted the rumour in order to destabilise Mercedes' arch-rival Ferrari. 'I have a lot of respect for Niki,' Ferrari chief Maurizio Arrivabene told Auto Bild, 'but if you see all of his comments on paper, some are right and some are not.' In...
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