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Hamilton ‘didn't have high opinion' of Lauda

Lewis Hamilton has revealed he was initially not a big fan of Niki Lauda prior to working together at Mercedes. Before Lauda helped lure Hamilton to Mercedes from McLaren, he criticised the now five-time World Champion with his comments after Hamilton's crash with Felipe Massa in the 2011 Monaco Grand Prix perhaps the most damning. 'What Hamilton did there goes beyond all boundaries,' Lauda told RTL television at the time. 'He’s completely mad. If the FIA does not punish him, I do not understand the world any more. 'At some point there has to be an end to all the jokes. You cannot drive like this – as it will result in someone getting killed. Hamilton said that those comments,...
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