Lauda swapped trophies for free car washes


Formula One - F1 - British Grand Prix 2015 - Silverstone, England - 3/7/15 Mercedes' Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes non executive chairman Niki Lauda Reuters / Paul Childs Livepic

SILVERSTONE, England, (Reuters) - Triple world champion Niki Lauda agrees with Lewis Hamilton's comments about 'ugly' Formula One trophies but says they were so bad in his day that he swapped them for a lifetime of free car washes.

"I binned them all, you're absolutely right, because in my time they were most of them ugly and for me useless," said the Austrian, now non-executive chairman of Hamilton's Mercedes team.

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