The team principal, who joined Mercedes in 2013, issued an unequivocal warning to his drivers. “But still I was able to create an environment where they had to respect the team, sometimes with an iron fist, and they understood that they couldn’t let us down, they couldn’t let Mercedes down.” “It was very difficult, because I came into the team as a newcomer in F1 and Nico and Lewis had been in the sport for much longer,” he told the High Performance podcast. Wolff said the team could not tolerate the situation. They clashed at the Belgian GP in 2014, in Austria in 2016 and also notoriously took each other out of the race in Spain the same year. When Mercedes delivered a completely dominant car in 2014, the world championship became a two‑horse race and the friendship the pair had shared since karting deteriorated into a bitter rivalry. Hamilton and Rosberg were teammates at Mercedes between 20.
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