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Lauda shocked that staff at Brackley did not drive Mercedes
17 March, 2013 Niki Lauda
Niki Lauda, Mercedes' new co-owner and chairman, has admitted he was shocked when he first visited the team's Brackley headquarters in the UK.
Also home to BAR, Honda and Brawn staff in recent history, Mercedes team members had driven to work at the wheel of Audis, Hondas and Vauxhalls, triple world champion told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
'We changed that,' said the famous red-capped Lauda. 'Now there's a better employee leasing (scheme).'
Crucially for the recently-underperforming team, however, the really important car – Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg's W04 – is also going well.
But Lauda warned: 'We are still not at Red Bull's level.'...
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