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Ecclestone advised Mercedes to sign Hamilton
13 March, 2013 Bernie Ecclestone with Lewis Hamilton last year
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has admitted he advised Mercedes to lure Lewis Hamilton from McLaren.
Many were surprised when Hamilton decided to leave established top team McLaren for 2013 and beyond, but it now emerges that Paddy Lowe is set to follow suit.
'I told Mercedes, ‘If you get Lewis, you'll get all the right kind of people for the future',' Ecclestone said in an interview with Bild newspaper.
'They'll now get people who believe they are working on a winning team,' he added.
The downside, for McLaren, is having lost two of the most highly-rated figures – 2008 world champion Hamilton and technical...
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