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Old 16 Apr 2020, 07:57 (Ref:3971082)   #135
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Yeah, I don't remember details of it but this is true, he was sort of unhappy with DTM/ITC getting stronger and stronger and saw it as sort of a threat to Formula 1's position.

Something good came of it in the form of the Mercedes FIA GT programme. Mercedes now had a large sum of money sitting idle with the demise of ITC and used it to build the CLK GTR
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