Police have suggested the Mercedes Method 1 crew that no felony offences have been dedicated by the sender of an electronic mail that claimed Lewis Hamilton’s automobile had been “sabotaged”.
Mercedes crew principal Toto Wolff referred the nameless electronic mail to the police after it was despatched to him, a sequence of senior figures in F1 and members of the media.
A spokesperson for Northamptonshire police stated: “Northamptonshire Police obtained a report on 12 June relating to an electronic mail that had been circulated inside the Mercedes AMG F1 Workforce.
“No felony offences have been discovered to have been dedicated. Nonetheless, recommendation was given relating to any additional emails the crew might obtain.”
The letter claimed Hamilton’s automobile was being compromised by the crew following his choice to maneuver to Ferrari from 2025.
Wolff rejected the claims within the letter as “mad” and stated he and Hamilton have been decided to finish their relationship on a excessive following his choice to drive for Ferrari from 2025.
Wolff stated he doesn’t imagine the letter was despatched by a Mercedes worker however that the crew had been unable to supply its origin.
Eventually weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, Ferrari crew principal Frederic Vasseur stated the claims within the letter have been “utterly irrational”.
Vasseur, a detailed buddy of Wolff, stated: “I am placing my relationship with Toto apart. How you possibly can think about that an organization with 1,500 folks working night time and day, pushing like hell to carry upgrades, we may kill one in all our vehicles or harm one in all our vehicles?
“No person within the paddock may do one thing like this. We’re preventing for the championship.
“Every weekend we try to attain one level greater than the opposite one. How you possibly can think about that we are saying ‘OK, that Lewis, we do not need to rating factors any extra with him’?”
