Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says that five-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes engineers did not tell him about a secret superbike test at Jerez, Spain, last December.
As it turned out, Hamilton even crashed while testing the plain black Yamaha superbike.
"We had a laugh because I couldn't get hold of him and couldn't get hold of my chief strategist and one of the race engineers," Wolff said. "I found out they were racing motorbikes in Jerez and nobody would pick up the phone. And then they were a bit apologetic."
Wolff said Hamilton's extracurricular activities are often "worrying," but understands that the 34-year-old needs to do what works for him.
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