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World champion Lewis Hamilton destroyed a hotel room after crashing in Baku qualifying. F1 legend and Mercedes team chairman Niki Lauda made the revelation on Austrian television Servus TV, also claiming Hamilton "lied" about having a good relationship with Nico Rosberg.
"The more Rosberg is in front, the wilder Lewis gets," Lauda said, according to Speed Week. "I was there when he smashed his room in Baku because he had hit the wall. Of course he paid for the damage himself."
As for Hamilton's supposed lie, Lauda said that what Hamilton told the media recently about his relationship with Rosberg was obviously not true. "He lied. To say it was all ok with Nico was just for show," he said. (GMM)
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I don't understand why Niki would make this public. 'Destroyed a hotel room' can mean so many things and I don't see how this is related to racing on the track. It belongs in the realm of tabloids.
Everybody knows that Lewis and Nico don't go well together even though they say otherwise, but that is what we expect a professional to say when asked about it. Of course we love Niki to be unpolitical, but I thought this was a miss.