Full text of Mercedes "sabotage" Hamilton email sent to police

The email author claiming to be a team member made allegations that Mercedes boss Toto Wolff found insulting enough to open a police case in an effort to identify the troll and make him or her behind the allegations accountable for the offensive email.

The content of the email, which was 'spammed' to F1 team bosses and F1-accredited media, was discussed during the F1 team principals' press conference on the Friday of the Spanish Grand Prix weekend. Where Wolff revealed that the matter was now with the police.

Mercedes have established that the email was not sent from within the team's network. Their IT tech reportedly investigating the source IP address in an effort to locate the author.

"Some of us in the team are unhappy about the systematic sabotaging of Lewis, his car, his tyre strategy, his race strategy, his mental health and the unprofessional way Toto, lover boy George and others are mistreating him.

"Toto is vindictive and is like a scorned wife no longer speaking with Lewis but is doing everything possible to get back at him. Lewis is excluded and some underhanded things are going on that people need to be aware of. Ask the questions and the truth will out, it is all in the data and is recorded.

"With the exception of Bono and those of us who love Lewis others are on a dangerous course that could ultimately be life-threatening to Lewis, other drivers, and even the public. A cold tyre strategy is a death warrant. Toto, George beware and be correct. Not all of us are prepared to be a part of your unfair unprofessional destruction of Lewis for your own self-gratification."

In response to queries about the email from reporters in Barcelona on Friday, Wolff said: "I don't know what some of the conspiracy theorists and lunatics think out there. Lewis was part of the team for 12 years. We have a friendship. We trust each other. We want to win this. We want to end this on a high. We want to celebrate the relationship.

"And if you don't believe all of that, then you can believe that we want to win the Constructors’ World Championship. And part of the Constructors’ World Championship is making both cars win. So to all of these mad people out there… get a shrink," declared the Mercedes boss.