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Mercedes originally didn't want to sign Lewis Hamilton for 2013
Mercedes didn't originally want to sign Lewis Hamilton as Michael Schumacher's replacement according to former Mercedes team CEO Nick Fry. Mercedes were looking for a replacement for the seven-time World Champion to partner Nico Rosberg and according to Fry, although he wanted Hamilton, Mercedes' upper management weren't keen and wanted him to approach Nick Heidfeld for the seat. 'Initially I couldn’t get Mercedes on board with hiring Lewis,' he wrote in his upcoming book 'Survive. Drive. Win.', an excerpt of which was published by RaceFans. 'More than once we were sent back to come up with other ideas. For whatever reason, we were told to look at...
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