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After Mercedes got accused of sabotaging Lewis Hamilton, in an anonymous message, Toto Wolff says the team is “going full force” and they have “police inquiring it”.
Ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix, the Daily Mail revealed they received an anonymous message supposedly from a member of Mercedes, who claimed that the team was purposely sabotaging Lewis Hamilton.
“Some of us in the team are unhappy about the systematic sabotaging of Lewis, his car, his tyre strategy, his race strategy and his mental health,” the message said.
“Lewis is excluded, and some underhanded things are going on that people need to be aware of. Ask the questions and the truth will out. It is all in the data and is recorded.
“With the exception of Bono [Lewis’ race engineer Peter Bonnington] and those of us who love Lewis, others are on a dangerous course that could ultimately be life threatening to Lewis, other drivers, even the public.
“A cold tyre strategy is a death warrant,” the message concluded.
When Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff was asked about this, he said Mercedes has involved the police in the case.
“Yeah, so it’s not from a member of the team,” the Austrian said.
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“When we are getting these kind of emails, and we’re getting tons of them, it is upsetting, particularly when somebody is talking about death and all these things.
“So, on this particular one, I have instructed to go in full force. We have the police inquiring it. We are researching the IP address. We are researching the phone, all of that, because online abuse in that way needs to stop.
“People can’t hide behind their phones or their computers and abuse teams or drivers in a way like this. I don’t know what some of the conspiracy theorists and lunatics think out there.
“Lewis was part of the team for 12 years. We have a friendship. We trust each other. We want to win this. We want to end this on a high. We want to celebrate the relationship.
“And if you don’t believe all of that, then you can believe that we want to win the Constructors’ World Championship. And part of the Constructors’ World Championship is making both cars win.
“So to all of these mad people out there… take a shrink,” Wolff concluded.
