Niki has lost his marbles IMO.

He's a mascot, nothing more.

Irishgreen

But he is, if the reports are true, damaging the Mercedes reputation through what seems to be blatant attempts to discredit Hamilton and should be stopped from doing it, IMO.

A great shame, I really admired his taking on the Austrian government for LaudaAir and the way he both challenged and yet still kept friends with Enzo, to say nothing of his recovery from the Nurburgring '76 shunt..

This now is almost childish and stupid, if it is all true.

Mercedes should step in. If they haven't already, of course.....

I would like to see Channel4 or Sky interview Lauda over these events.

Hamilton himself has said "the damage is done".

If the management are being deceitful about the "employees" why do they think they have the right to demand honesty from the "employees"?

I particularly want explained why when Rosberg made a mistake in Spain and then used his car as a weapon to keep the team-mate who hadn't made a mistake behind him, forcing him off the track and causing a crash that took the whole team out of the race is "Hamilton's fault".

The logic of that is inexplicable. Perhaps Lauda has re-thought it?

Probably not.....

Damage limitation has started POB.


http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/125161

Laughable.

I can't believe you're blowing my comments out of proportion, and not considering the casual context in which they were made.

".. casual context..."

Wow, how do you casually call somebody a liar?

I agree, laughable indeed. I suppose with revolution and unrest in the driver camp the last think Mercedes want to do now is show the same from the "management team".

Like yourself POB I had the greatest of respect for Lauda as a driver and a man. Now though, I think he should just wave the Mercedes flag and stop giving 'team' interviews.
That's Toto's job.

In other words, shut up Niki.

Lauda not looking too chuffed with Hamilton recovering that!

Thought about this too, the guy has to be muzzled

His behaviour needs to be controlled

Still cannot understand how Nico got away with what he did in Barcelona

Is there a bonus from Mercedes to the management this season for a German World Champion?

I seem to recall when Hamilton won brilliantly (and with a little luck too) at Monaco and Wolff was interviewed at some point after the race he claimed the pit wall strategist had won the race!

"Here is the man who won for us today..." or words to that effect. I have looked through some video but can't find it again.

I thought at the time it was an unusual, almost insulting, comment to make.

Lauda was rather downbeat about Hamilton's pole, all of the media are avoiding the remarks he made but it is like an elephant in the room.

I think Hamilton's, "the damage is done" is telling. In that interview he confirmed he had not spoken to Lauda about it.

In FP3 I think it was, they were shown together in the pit, Hamilton chewing, Lauda looking somewhere else, a vision of harmony it was not.

Mercedes did nothing to help Hamilton in Baku, over a considerable period of time, "No, Lewis, we can't tell you that, it's against the rules".

They waded in pretty quick today to help Nico though!

Has justice has been done with a penalty? Perhaps he wouldn't have finished without the help