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Mercedes launches hunt for next German F1 star
Sep.1 Mercedes has teamed up with Germany's biggest motoring organisation ADAC to fully bankroll the rise of the country's next Formula 1 hopeful. Team boss Toto Wolff says the soaring costs of junior racing – 250,000 euros for karting, 1 million for Formula 4 – have priced out all but the richest families. 'Nobody can afford that anymore without the support of the industry,' he said at Zandvoort. 'As a German brand, we would like to have a German in Formula 1 again in a few years – someone we nurtured, like Kimi Antonelli or George Russell,' Wolff added. 'We won't do this half-heartedly with ADAC – we'll do it to identify the best. We're brutal in that regard.'...
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