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Brawn says he quit Mercedes because he didn't trust Wolff, Lauda

Ross Brawn says he left Mercedes at the end of 2013 because he could not trust Niki Lauda and Toto Wolff, who had been added to the management team by the Stuttgart manufacturer. Brawn, who sold his team to Mercedes after the successful 2009 season, explains the reasons for his departure in his new book, Total Competition. In it he discusses his career at length with co-author Adam Parr. "What happened at Mercedes is that people were imposed on me who I couldn't trust," Brawn says. "I never really knew what they were trying to do. I mean Niki would tell me one thing, then I would hear he was saying something else." Brawn then recounts the story of Wolff making critical...
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