“The month of July could be the decisive one for the renewal of Lewis Hamilton”. So Toto Wolff in one of the last interviews released before the start of the 2020 F1 championship he had addressed the issue related to the fact that the six-time world champion in expiry of a contract with Mercedes has not yet made his future official unlike Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen, both linked to Ferrari and Red Bull respectively with long-term contracts.
Mercedes or Hamilton, Bottas, or Wolff have no certainties about 2021. An unusual situation for the team of the three-pointed Star house that is preparing to go hunting in 2020 for the seventh consecutive time of the drivers ‘and manufacturers’ title . He will do it with one new liverydarker, a gesture in honor of Lewis Hamilton’s activism regarding support for the Black Lives Matter movement and in line with the F1 WeRaceAsOne campaign against discrimination.
According to Daily Mail, Lewis Hamilton it has no intention of significantly lowering its claims when negotiating for the next contract. The pilot born in 1985 asked £ 40 million to continue offering their services to Mercedes. A decidedly high figure considering the global crisis that the whole world is going through due to the impact on the economy that the Coronavirus pandemic had.
The figure requested by Hamilton is more than four times what Ferrari recognizes to Leclerc (9 million euros per season). The domino of the drivers market does not offer great outlets to Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari already has the seats occupied until 2022 with Carlos Sainz who will support Charles Leclerc. We’ll see if Mercedes accepts the conditions Hamilton to continue to boast of the most successful driver on the current starting grid. The double weekend in Austria, a track on which Hamilton has not won since 2016, could already be an important test for the reigning champion to justify the high economic demands.
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