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Lauda: 'Half the grid' has enquired over vacant Rosberg seat
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Niki Lauda claims that nearly “half the grid have offered themselves” to replace Nico Rosberg at Mercedes in 2017, following the 2016 world champion’s unexpected decision to withdraw from the sport. Since Rosberg announced his retirement in Vienna on Friday, there has been a growing list of candidates mentioned as potential team-mate to Lewis Hamilton next year. Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff has declared that the team is looking at “all the options”, which range from promoting a young driver like Pascal Wehrlein to buying out the contract of one of the top drivers, all of whom are signed for 2017. “We have lost a champion, the best driver of...
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