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Zetsche: I don't understand Ecclestone's sales pitch

Daimler chief executive Dieter Zetsche, whose dominant Mercedes Formula One team have been champions for the past two years, has taken issue with Bernie Ecclestone for talking down the sport only weeks before the start of the new season. Zetsche told reporters at a Mercedes E-class presentation at the former Portuguese Grand Prix circuit that he could not comprehend why Ecclestone would make such comments. 'At the Geneva Motor Show I was not going on the stage to say I would never drive a Mercedes and customers should better not do it,' he said. 'I don't understand how someone who is not only the CEO but partial owner of that product talks that way about this product,' added the...
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