Niki Lauda has claimed that Tuesday's rumour that Ross Brawn had decided to walk away from the Mercedes F1 team at the end of the season were far from the truth.The Austrian, currently the Brackley-based team's chairman, admits that there have been talks with the highly-respected team principal, but denies that they have broken down, or that Brawn has decided that, unable to get the assurances he wants with regard to his stature in the inflated Mercedes technical hierarchy, had decided to sever his ties with the team.“I hate all this bullsh*t,” Lauda was quoted by Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, “The speculation is total rubbish. The situation is absolutely clear: I spoke to Ross a...
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