Helmut Marko feels Niki Lauda wouldn't have let things between Red Bull and Mercedes escalate so much in 2021. For the first time since the German outfit rejoined the Formula 1 grid in 2010, the two teams battled it out for both titles this year and it's fair to say things got rather heated between them. On track, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton came together a number of times while away from it team principals Christian Horner and Toto Wolff traded insults with one another throughout the season. At the height of tensions between the two parties in October, Dutch journalist Jack Plooij stated that the presence of the late Lauda at Mercedes and his relationship with Marko was what had...
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