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Mercedes refused Lauda's out-of-court deal

Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn and executive director Toto Wolff refused an out-of-court deal masterminded by the team's non-executive chairman Niki Lauda. The triple world champion says he agreed a deal with Bernie Ecclestone which would have seen Mercedes avoid having to go to the International Tribunal, but his colleagues refused the offer. "Red Bull lodged the protest against us with Ferrari. I tried the whole weekend in Montreal to avoid the [tribunal] process," Lauda explained to Blick. "[I] agreed an out-of-court deal with Bernie Ecclestone and to make it happen it needed a letter from Mercedes to FIA boss [Jean] Todt," he said. "But our bosses Toto Wolff...
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