The Red Bull motorsport advisor has revealed he passed on key information to old friend and then Mercedes non-executive chairman 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Niki Lauda that Hamilton could be🧔 poached from MꦍcLaren at the end of the 2012 season. 

Three-time world champion Lauda held talks with Hamilton throughout the yearꦡ and ultimately convinced t🍌he Briton to make the switch to Mercedes for the following season. 

Marko said he made the suggestion to Lauda because he believed Hamilton would be “less of a threat to us at Mercedes”, but the 79🐠-year-old Austrian has now conceded he made an error. 

"I gave him [Lauda] some information that Lewis would be availabl🔥e,” Marko told Bild, via The Mirror. 

"Of course I was not being altruistic. At the time, we thought Lewis would be less of a threat to us at Merced෴es than at McLaren, 🤡for whom he was driving at the time.

"In retrospect, that was a complete mis𝓡judgement, al♍though at the time it was really not foreseeable. But with the knowledge I have today, I would definitely not do that again.”

Following a sustained period of R🎐ed Bull success that culminated in a fourth consecutive world title for Sebastian Vettel, Mercedes would go on to dominate much of the V6 hybrid era which began in 2014. 

Hamilton has won six of h✨is seven world championships with Mercedes on his way to becoming F1's most decorated driver of all time. 

Red Bull have since capitalised on a regulation reset to begin another spell of dominance, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen already well on course to win his🧔 th🌠ird straight world title in 2023.