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A day after motorsport's international prize-winners were celebrated by the FIA in Paris, the Mercedes team and its most distinguished members were honored at home in Brackley and it Brixworth.
Toto Wolff and Lewis Hamilton were conspicuously absent from the FIA's traditional gala as their anger over the events of last weekend in Abu Dhabi lingered.
But the pair, flanked by the always loyal Valtteri Bottas, were all smiles as they arrived at Mercedes' headquarters to pay tribute to the many hard-working members of the Brackley squad that had a hand in the constructor's 2021 championship winning campaign.
The home event was also Bottas' very last appearance in Mercedes team kit.
The Finn, who played a crucial support role for Hamilton over the years and whose loyalty was a major component of the team's harmony and stability, was deservedly applauded long and loud.
Time to move on...
