An anonymous email sent to the Formula One community has claimed Lewis Hamilton is being ‘sabotaged’ at Mercedes.

The team insist the correspondence was not penned by an employee – as the writer implies – but by a Hamilton fan who believes their man is losing out to George Russell because boss Toto Wolff feels slighted by the seven-time world champion’s decision to join Ferrari next season.

Hamilton claimed on Wednesday that he was unaware of the letter but so seriously have Mercedes taken the matter that they investigated the IP address from which the email was sent – though they were not able to track down its source.

 

It was sent on June 10 – a day after the Canadian Grand Prix, in which Hamilton finished fourth, a place behind Russell – to all the sport’s high-rollers and journalists who were copied into the leak of Red Bull boss Christian Horner‘s exchanges with a female employee in March. That leak electrified F1.

The fact the recipients were the same would seem to indicate the sender is connected to Formula One circles, though those emails addresses can be accessed elsewhere.

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Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes are in the midst of another underwhelming season