The Red Bull motorsport advisor has revealed he passed on key information to old friend and then Mercedes non-executive chairman 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Niki Lauda that Hamilton could be poached from McLaren at the 💧end of the 2012 season. 

Three-time worl✃d champion Lauda held talks with Hamilton throughout the year and ultimately convinced the 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 available,” 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 Mercedes than at McLaren, for whom he was driving atꦗ the time.

"In retrospect, that was a complete misjudgement, although at t꧅he time it was really not foreseeable. But with the knowledge I have today, I would de꧋finitely not do that again.”

Following a sustained period o෴f Red Bull success that culminated in a fourth consecutive world title for Sebastian Vettel, Mꦰercedes would go on to dominate much of the V6 hybrid era which began in 2014. 

Hamilton has won six of his seven world championships with Mercedes on his way to becoming F1's most decorated driver of all time.&nbs🦄p;

Red Bull have since capitalised on a regulation reset to begin another spell of dominance, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen already well on cours🥀e to win his third straight world title in 202꧅3.