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Mercedes clarifies Hamilton jet-ski incident

Mercedes on Thursday hit back at reports Lewis Hamilton racked up a huge damage bill after a jet-skiing stunt in Monaco. A Swiss newspaper had said the 2008 world champion performed an extra-tight turn in front of a boat of photographers on Wednesday, deliberately soaking and damaging photo and TV cameras and mobile phones. Blick journalist Roger Benoit said Mercedes had apologised and vowed to pay the $150,000 repair bill. But a Mercedes source on Thursday insisted that the story was not the classic case of a celebrity lashing out at paparazzi. Rather, Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were performing on jet-skis for a television film crew. And the claims about the cost of the damage to equipment...
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