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Mercedes threatened to sack Hamilton and Rosberg, reveals Lauda
A furious Mercedes team management threatened to sack both Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in 2016, Niki Lauda revealed this week. The crisis came after the Spanish Grand Prix, where the two team mates collided and took each other out of the race. “We told them – especially in Barcelona when they pushed each other off the track – we said 'This was unacceptable for Mercedes'," the team's non-executive chairman told Graham Bensinger on YouTube. "'If you do it again or we will think of releasing you from your contract'," he recalled the warning given to both drivers. "We are team players here and we cannot destroy each other. Lauda credited team principal Toto Wolff...
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