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Hamilton: ‘Even Dad said don't join Mercedes’
Lewis Hamilton said even his dad told him to stay put at McLaren, but by joining Mercedes he showed how taking a risk can pay off. Hamilton claimed one World Championship with McLaren in 2008, and while come 2012 the Woking outfit weren't at a level to compete for the title, joining the Mercedes team who had finished on the podium only three times that year seemed a very strange move. But it's one which absolutely paid off for Hamilton who is now a six-time World Champion with a record 93 race wins to his name, while Mercedes have just secured their seventh Constructors' Championship in a row. Get your hands on the official Mercedes 2020 collection via the Formula 1 store Even his father...
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