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Lauda: Hamilton, Rosberg threatened with sacking

Niki Lauda has revealed that such was the discontent between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg that the former team-mates wouldn't even say hello in the morning. With Mercedes dominating Formula 1 from 2014 to 2016, the battle for the World title was an intra-team tussle that often grew heated. Both Hamilton and Rosberg refused to give an inch, which resulted in collisions most notably at the 2016 Spanish GP. 'We had huge competition within the team which was sometimes too much,' Lauda, Mercedes non-executive chairman, said in an interview with Graham Bensinger on YouTube. 'We put some regulations in, we told them – especially in Barcelona when the pushed each other off the track...
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