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Dennis did not try to prevent Hamilton's exit

McLaren chairman Ron Dennis said he did not seriously try to stop Lewis Hamilton leaving his team last year. Hamilton switched from McLaren to Mercedes over the winter after spending most of the summer deliberating over his future. However, Dennis, who had overseen Hamilton's career from an early age, said he did not seriously attempt to block his driver's move to a rival team. "I recently read a very nice quote from Lewis in which he said that, unlike other drivers who had joined McLaren once they'd already raced in F1, his apprenticeship with the team in his youth meant that he was a seed that had grown within McLaren, which I thought was an extremely eloquent way of putting...
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