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Lewis reveals Brawn persuasion
Lewis Hamilton has revealed he was first 'sold' on transferring to Mercedes from McLaren during a meeting with Ross Brown at his mother's home midway through the 2012 campaign. Hamilton's decision to abandon McLaren, for whom he had driven since boyhood, for then also-rans Mercedes stunned F1 at the time of its announcement. Two years on, however, and with Hamilton on the verge of a second title courtesy of the team's dominant start to the sport's new turbo era, the gamble has come to represent a masterstroke.It has passed into F1 folklore that Hamilton was persuaded to join Mercedes during a late-night-early-morning meeting with Niki Lauda in his hotel room around the weekend of the...
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